The answer does not surprise her, but it does not feel good. It's never good, to not be fully in control of your fate, and to have some greater power making demands. Her eyes close.

"I've been put in worse positions than this." And, having been in worse positions, she knows how to navigate them. She actually begins to smile, hearing that the limits this places upon her are relatively light. "Does this have an end? Is this what I'm supposed to do, from now on? Or... or can I go home, when it's done?"

She misses Parum so, so much.