Hmhm. Perhaps to entice my cooperation? If it is alike to dying, given the selfsame circumstances of which I arrived, then we are in a word "tethered" to this place.

[ which might sound a little high thinking for don, but. well. she is tethered to someone back home, and brought back as they will it, so the concept isn't too different. ]

It cannot be too difficult to bring us here if they are able to continue to open the city as they do.