“I’ve been plucked up and put through worse.” A truth, if a vague one. He had sworn to pass on word of Narkina 5 - to tell others what was happening there - but he still had to be careful. Telling that to the wrong person could get him killed. It could wait.

“If I was bothered, what would it matter?” He’d long learned how to keep his hatred and desire for revenge to himself. But he didn’t even know who was responsible for bringing him here, yet. And in the meantime:

“I’m alive, I’m not caged, and there may be a way out. I’ll worry about where I am when there’s something I can do about it.”