[He brightened a little more.] Oh, well, good to know I'm not earning any special treatment yet. [He won't say it won't happen for certain, that'd be wildly optimistic.]

No, there's been at least one other city. Sa-Hareth. That's where I showed up. By the time I escaped the prison, that Merchant guy had already started financing the rest of this lot. [And... Shit. He was discussing all this without proper security. That was sloppy.]

One more thing--the translators we're using? They act as... [Hells. How should he describe it? Barely anybody here knew what a commlink was. Or even a radio.] They're long-distance communications devices. And I haven't seen any evidence that they're really secured. So if you've ever got something to say that you can't risk others listening in on, everyone in the conversation's got to take them off and leave them somewhere out of range.

...And if nobody else here speaks your language, you're out of luck. I don't suppose you speak Basic, do you?