"No, I get it. Back home, you have a stake, you were born there, you owe them your loyalty. Right now, Free Cities is what owes you a living; I mean, they brought you here."

But Shepard, for one, had never been averse to working with her kidnappers, if it meant that she could get on with business more quickly. Pride and justice and moral qualms were other people's problems; professionally, her only interest was in the end result.

But she does have a smile for his nostalgia, even as she finishes writing down his list. And Belmont too.

"Only good things, I hope. Haven't had time to screw up yet," She sticks out her hand again, the precursor to a dismissal, "Thanks for cooperating. Maybe I'll see you around. Got a shooting range set up on the Horizon, these days. Doesn't hurt to keep in practice."