"Since I left Earth?" she asks rhetorically, because she'd spent nearly twenty years living in Leadworth til she finally found the Doctor. She glances aside as she thinks, even while knowing the answer. Not long enough. Nowhere near long enough to bring up a child. She doesn't know how to settle down, to stop moving. Her life has only ever been about running.

"Well, there was that time I got trapped in a time capsule for a year, that was ever so annoying. Spent a year trying to get out, found out five minutes had passed!" Her eyes crinkle as she tries to make light of it, but it quickly dim when she knows she must face the truth of that, of who she is.

"But.. no longer than a month. It's.. not what I do, Methos."