Julia was somewhat taken by surprise when he answers her question with utmost seriousness and she looks a little apologetic when he explains to her the link between addiction and food. "... Oh, I did not know that." she answers, somewhat regretting the joke she was trying to make, when she still assumed that this was actually not a Cardamine-spiked sauce. But it was.
Moments later things become clear and now she understands why this was serious for the Lane Hacker. "Oh... <surprised> I... have to admit, you surprised me now. I mean... of course I know some inside your group are dependent on the Outcast drug... but I did not expect you..." and she apologizes again: "... what I said was not meant to sound disrespectful."
But she can't let go fully, her curiousity drives her on. For a person socialised in the IMG, it was hard to understand why an intelligent man like him would fall for addiction. "... was it an accident? I mean, ... <a little hesitant> your addiction?" she asks him, looking to him with unhidden curiousity. She knew some addicts from the Tau 37 Freeport and the effects of Cardamine inhalation she had also seen before, however this was puzzling, as he was not the typical person she expected to be an addict.
