"The moment I left. Or real close to it." She shakes her head a little. "Time hadn't passed--or if it had, not much. Nobody had missed me or noticed I was gone. And they would have."

She falls silent for the space of a few strides. She'd spent so many months back on the Enterprise wondering if she'd ever come back. If she'd see him again, if he was still here. Maybe that's what prompts her confession, the sense that this place could take things away at any moment.

"...First thing I did when I got back here was look for you."