"Lad I'm not here to persuade you to team Boat Home. Like, I'm on that team but I've got no quarrel with not wanting to be here. If I can figure out a way to help with it I will, y'know? But, my thought here is...that we're not being eaten to death. Those ghosts came back absolutely full of emotion. They were angry, they were sad, they were uh -" fuck it, Vance has been doing the Bad Boy routine, she can get a liiiiiiiiittle blunt, "kinda horny. If they'd been hollowed out completely, how can they come back with feelings? If you're serious about escape these are the sorts of answers we both need; how are we sustained here, what exactly is the Captain getting from us, and what precisely makes us cease to be? You want the Captain as your enemy, more power to you - but the burden is on you, then, to know your enemy. No scrappy underdog ever won on luck. They put in the work."