Oda. [That's fine. That's comfortable. She was Tayrey on her ship most of the time, after all.] If you like. Unless there is ever a very formal occasion, and then I'll have to use your full title. And my full name. [Which she doesn't think he knows, but he wouldn't understand the significance anyway.] I'd never call you a fool. Some conventions need to be broken - but I wouldn't break all of them just for the sake of it, anyway.

[Unfortunately, Ari's worry about breaking her contract to her captain doesn't outweigh the sheer existential terror that his next words bring her. She blinks a few times, and then stares down at the floor. There's a slight trembling of her shoulders - she's fighting for control of the emotions, but she's not doing well at it.]

Oda, if I believed that, I would...throw myself into the sea. And do the same every time I woke, until the Captain grew bored and let me stay dead. I would have no hope.