She nods, as though this is indeed a perfectly normal thing to do for a friend. "I don't know if Wen Kexing really wanted me to pay him back, either," she says, admitting it to herself aloud for the first time. "But he wanted me to have a reason to stick around, so he made me his servant, and now he relies on me for everything. I do his washing, manage his money, make sure he remembers to eat and drink--back when it was just the two of us, he needed me. Now ... maybe not."