[ Marcos understands the sentiment. If he thought some of them might sabotage their means to get home, he'd be more reluctant to travel with them, but right now they at least seem to have enough of a common goal. ]

...Back home we tried to vet the people we worked with, to at least weed out some of the troublemakers. [ They took in about anyone, but they did make an effort to manage psychopaths who only wanted anarchy. As well as that turned out. ] That's harder to do here. Supposedly the Merchant knows more about us, so it's possible he has some standards, but I don't know how we'd get our hands on that information.