[ Gray follows readily. She doesn't have much love for bureaucratic grandstanding either. ]

There are only a few people I'm willing to go this far for. There are only a few people I need to see again, no matter what.

[ The rest are beyond her ability to put on a scale. Her imagination isn't so grand; it's much easier for her to care about the people right in front of her than the hypothetical billions of strangers on her Earth. ]

If those few people managed to make their way here... my reasoning might be a little different.