Overheard Starbuck

"Didn't you stop to think they weren't trying to kill you, that they didn't want you dead? Didn't they give you women?"
---"I was too busy running in circles. I wasn't having fun. I didn't understand."
"They were giving you an out, a chance to escape."
---"I could never take direction but I wasn't a bad improviser. ... I realized years later it was setup as a 'Hobson's choice' and through sheer incompetence and what I now tell myself was divine intervention I didn't choose."
"Fool."
---"So where are those friends now; where are those women?"
"Well now you're good for nothing, you might as well be dead. You were supposed to go."