[She blinked. Although it did explain why he hadn't tried to leave for three months. But contracts?]

Why? Not that a year is necessarily that long, but what requires you and the others to stay like that? What kind of contract did you agree to?

[Was it even allowed for a child to sign a contract? She wasn't up to date on Earth laws...although she did suppose this wasn't Earth so perhaps that concern was null and void anyway. Also, something else occurred to her and she frowned.]

Wait...what others? Who else is here Steven?