[ Caring about so many people must be exhausting is the first thing Boa thinks, involuntarily. It had been hard enough with how few people Boa has grown to love here at camp, having this many to be concerned with... Boa doesn't know how Lance does it.

But then again, he doesn't need to know. What he needs to know is what caring for Lance feels like, because that is the one person in this equation who is one of his. ]

That's one thing, joining those guys and risking your life on their schemes while you try and wait for your chance is another.

[ There's a brief pause. ]

I've done it before, I worked for someone who would have let me die and who let dozens of children just like me die. I did it because I stood something to gain, I thought, but maybe it was because... because I thought I had nothing to lose.

Even I wouldn't do it again. So why on earth are you thinking of it? You, you've got your family, your team, your giant robot!