Saving everyone was what Skulduggery had sold her on too and she might have believed it if everyone was willing to cooperate with collective efforts, but all she's been met with is resistance and pushback... After all her dismissive behavior, Cassandra had tried to insist somehow she valued Ava's life enough for that not to get in the way of her plans, and yet Ava doesn't trust that either. She knows her life is a bargaining chip, something to keep her loyal and compliant to whoever holds it.

And right now the only one demonstrating the ability to keep her stable is the Captain and he's her friend and so she's grown complacent for that to be fine for the moment. Not a solution, except in the vague thought of hiding within his realities for as long as she can manage. But the worries have been flaring up again, increasingly often. As mutineers talk of destroying this place, of escape to where she cannot follow. "Rita says I better figure it out. For Fio."