[In Jade's 32 years of life, people are rarely so magnanimous. Even when they perform charitable acts -- such as freeing those forcefully bound to servitude -- they usually don't do so entirely out of goodwill. Maybe it's just her own cynicism taking the reigns, though.]

Why wouldn't they? We're supposed to be grateful for their rescue, and you'd have to be a complete asshole or an idiot to bite the hand that feeds.

[And Jade knows what that looks like.]

Not sure where I'll be standing when the inevitable question pops -- here or miles away. But whatever...