[ Yata just stares at her a moment in disbelief, her words hitting him like a punch in the gut. It sounds...

...It sounds too good to be true. Which means it probably is. ]

Bullshit. You're telling me all I gotta do is survive one sea voyage and that's it? I'm free? Even if I did take you at your word and you followed through on it, what then? I can't go anywhere in the city. I'm branded now. Owned. There's no freedom from that. It's a life sentence. I'd be picked up the first time one of the guards spotted me anywhere on my own.