[ The obvious answer, of course, is no. Of course she can't trust all of them – she'd be hard pressed to say she even trusts most of them. Nobody here has given her a reason to actively suspect them of having cruel intentions but that doesn't mean anything at all when they've all been pre-supplied with a perfectly good reason to betray the group, even before their own inclinations ever enter the picture.

But that's not the sort of thing Ai should say. Especially not right now and even more especially not to Jay. He's smart – which means Ai has to be extremely careful about the sort of things she lets slip around him.

So she hums thoughtfully to herself as she carefully chops another potato. ]

I'd like to think... maybe I could, eventually. Or at least, I can trust that we probably all really want to get home. And everyone's probably just about as mad as everyone else at the person running this whole thing. Don't you think that'd be enough to get people thinking about working together?