"If it was really whatever, you wouldn't be standing here looking like your heart has split in two."

Perhaps too brash and bold to respond with, but it's more a statement to say that she knows it means more, no matter how you deflect. That being said, she takes the deflection and rolls with it easily, letting the conversation drift.

"You could say that, yeah. Had to solve a lot of problems back home, both war-related and social circle-related. I got used to this sort of thing."

Especially since so many people on her crew wouldn't help her save the world until she solved or helped resolve their emotional problems. She'd like to say at least one person out there heard her say "so the world is ending" and jumped on it to help her just because of that, but that's not reality in a Bioware game.