Charley's actually quite keen to pursue the subject-- it's not something she's thought a great deal about in the past, barring her childhood frustrations with everything that being a lady entailed, but now that she is, it seems an immensely interesting one. But Andrew, it would seem, is not keen at all on any amount of pursuing. The subject-change is immensely obvious.

Unfortunately, the change is to something Charley would really rather not talk about, and Horatio does an awkward little shuffle, lifting all his feathers in a way that makes him look briefly like a little puffball.

Charley offers a crooked little half-smile. 'I got stranded. In the year 500,002. I'd sort of changed my mind about wanting to leave, you see, but then, well. I've been... travelling, since then. I'm not sure how long it's been exactly. A few years.'