"The Merchant wouldn't have hired him if he didn't think he could navigate his way through here, but I still don't know what we're worth to him. I'd like to know what his instructions were, or if the plan was to lose a few of us to teach us a lesson." So he can occasionally be more pessimistic than he seems. Marcos just gets that kind of vibe. Maybe it'd be less trouble for him if they all died in some abandoned island.

"At least it gives us a better idea of what's out there." That's what he says, but he still sounds a little resentful. They could have shown them this and still given them a heads up about what they were walking into. "I wasn't sure what to expect from my first trip out of Taravast."