It's only two words, but Ava doesn't like the implication behind them. "My condition hasn't ever been his responsibility..." she reasserts, crossing her arms across her midsection. "You don't even know him." Ava doesn't view it as any deliberate action upon the Captain's part to prevent her from leaving more than anyone else. He didn't make her this way. The Captain likes her, he's said as much. And has said he'd feel denied of something if he never saw her at his door again. But...

She's uncertain suddenly, and turns away. Views this as an attempt of Palamedes to cause her to doubt, pick at her insecurities, turn her loyalties. So that she'll turn to him instead. And he can insist there's no other motive in the offer, but her mind reminds her of every single way she's been taken advantage of. Ava sighs. "Good luck on the rest of your research."