Severa holds back a derisive kind of laugh as she goes back to avoiding York's eyes. That's the exact kind of thing her mother would have said to try to assuage Severa's budding inferiority complex. Just because one person says they make mistakes doesn't mean they actually do, and it certainly doesn't mean their mistakes come with the same kind of consequences as one's own.

"You fell into place here as though you were cut from the same cloth," she says, deciding to tell York just where she got that impression. "It doesn't seem like you've ever had to struggle to fit in around here. Even the concept of alien species doesn't faze you anymore, does it?"

Perhaps Severa gets honest when she gets drunk. It's harder to keep walls up that way. She thinks through a sentence about how if York weren't so personable, she'd be worse than Cordelia, but doesn't actually say it out loud.