She shrugged, looking bemused at her own helplessness. "I... really have no idea," she said, not as reluctant to admit it as she thought she was. "I mean... I guess I'm serving her now, soo... long as she needs me, I guess." The words felt funny coming out of her mouth; for a second she'd forgotten what she was really doing here.

But Kara wasn't going to waste what little time she had here talking about the machinations ordering her and Karl's lives around-- she was going to take her friend out and get them both piss-up-the-wall drunk. "So come on then, we haven't got all week," she said, elbowing him good-naturedly in the side. "Let me get out of these grays and you're taking me out drinking! You know how long it's been since I had ambrosia?"