"A powerful position...?" Ava asks. "No, I don't want anything like that. All I want is my husband to be happy." Free. She wants him to be free, off the ship and these realms and out of anyone's control. That'll never happen here, by nature it can't. The idea of a controlled Utopia is far too contradictory to those who value their independence above all. And one run by his captor isn't negotiable, no matter how he tries to spin it.

"If there's no Number 1. If you're not trying to get information from him anymore... maybe, maybe it is different."