Do Not Get Out of Jail Free

"I have always been free," Yong Cheng replied, shrugging. He concealed the knowledge that Sirius would likely teach him a lesson if he confessed, instead smiling up at the Warlorr's wife. He nodded, looking for all the world as if in agreement with Sirius. "It was of my own volition that I came."

He wasn't exactly lying. He had been inbetween a rock and teeth, and chosen the rock, because the rock would not purposely hurt him -- but teeth would.

"How may I be.of service, besides in a healer's capacity?"

Children, he mused. How interesting. Children meant that there would be much to do once they came; tiny things to look after, mouths to feed and clean and keep alive. It hardly seemed a good time to be bringing up young.

Children. How very, very interesting.