Bast's lips thinned at the evil Doctor's reaction to their freeing the rest of the prisoners. As far as she was concerned, it was good tactics, to confuse any retaliation and to get every possible prisoner out of their filthy, alien hands, simply because anything the fins wanted, she didn't want them to have. Before she could summon the words to argue, however, the large, oriental woman who'd helped them after they'd freed her put the basis of what Bast had been thinking rather more succinctly than Bast would have, and demonstrated that at least one from the batch was, in fact, quite useful.<br/><br/>It would have been stupid to show much more affront than her silence as she boarded the transport, then by the time she was seated, weariness made speech seem overrated, so she listened and watched through her eyelashes, trying to see who actually came on board, who was left from the group who had started.