“You can talk to him. I know it’s not easy to get through to him, but I—“

He sighed, looking away.

“I’m not trying to endanger anyone, you know that. But if he hadn’t have saved my life, they would have finally managed to break me and turn me into one of those puppets. We can’t— we have to stand up to them! What they’re doing is a fate worse than death, and I —“

Ugh. He bit into his lip to shut himself up.

“Get him to give me a mission, then. Give us a mission. Let me be helpful rather than just....”