[ Della seems openly surprised at the question, but maybe she shouldn't be. She looks away for a moment before confirming: ]

It's not completely new. When you travel with the world's greatest explorer... Well, things don't always go as planned, let me put it that way. Never anyone I knew, really. Still, it... It never really seemed real. Maybe I was just naive, maybe I was...too self-centered, but in the twenty years I spent getting into all kinds of world wide trouble, it never felt as personal as it does now.