[Aerich considers this, and isn't sure if he should, but...]

I do not know what I am doing wrong. And... I wish to survive to return home.

[He's not sure about that last one. There are things he won't sacrifice for his own life, but his own people need the warning of something capable of kidnapping their citizens to other words. That is a greater weight, so he is more careful about what concessions he will and will not make.]