Well,
that went...
Well, Esfir has no idea. She, being the optimist she is (no, really, she is: anyone who willingly flies a starfighter that is functionally a cockpit on two fuel tanks is an optimist) hopes that Katya took in everything Fira said, and will think about it in a rational manner. What Esfir suspects will happen is quite different, and thus when she walks into Ben's room, she slips her boots off, walks over to the bed, and falls back against it.
She'll explain in a minute.
Yep.
Any minute now.