Calpernia decides she's not going to exert any more energy toward trying to gauge this woman's motives or judge her. Maybe she's used to being judged and weighed, maybe not; it doesn't matter. Withdrawing is a kind of release. Calpernia realizes she needs to better remember what it was like not to be a general, a leader. She's just anybody, now. She hates it, but she is.

So she answers, voice flat, "what else do you want to know?"