Purgatory. The thought wasn't lost on her that both Severus and Sebastian had both described it as such. Martha remembered the conversation that in a real way, had started their relationship. The memory of how Severus would have rather been dead then stay on the ship any longer came to her then and she frowned. Martha now understood how angry a person could get for being taken without their consent and forced into the life that they now had. It was an issue Martha was struggling with, and (so far) it hadn't had half the problems that happened some months on the Barge. No floods, no ports, no demons, no ghosts.

No wonder inmates were so angry.

"I like to think that in the end, they're happy that they didn't die, or that they've been given a second chance. I know that for my part, most of the people I knew were glad for it." And only one person who had been an inmate had chosen to die.