Zoe talks about the Valley when she has to. When people don't know what it was like, and ought to; when something else brings it up, the way it happened with Atwood.

But there's a difference between delivering the facts as stoically as she can manage to someone else, and really talking about it to Wash.

Zoe's smile is faint, and a bit shaky, and she covers one of his hands with hers, rubbing gently.

"It means a lot t' know you would." That's a little shaky, too.

She pauses, then adds, in a firmer tone, "Thing is, though, 'm not sure I'd want Naomi there. So if I did end up goin'..."