"Well, they don't deserve to be called 'gods', do they," she replies, deadpan. Her language's word for common slavers feels both more appropriate and appropriately insulting.

"But you're right, of course, about them not knowing how to use it. That's the information I had gathered as well. I hadn't considered it might be broken, though." It's just speculation of course, but it would make some sense. Hopefully it's not quite as complicated as that, and instead just a problem of a lack of knowledge, which might be uncovered in this new location. Once they obtain a ship, anyway.

"If you're right, if it can be repaired, or better-controlled so that people can come and go and remember what happens in between then that opens up a lot of interesting possibilities, doesn't it?"