Hmm.

[Then it's not a loss to just say it, then. He shakes his head, expecting that this all will be for nothing.]

I want to be free of my contract. No...not just that. [He raises a hand, splaying it over his own thin chest.] I wish that no one would be able to contract me again.

[He grimaces.]

But for as long as I have lived...I have been tied to the affairs of others. It is an inescapable fate.