[ charlie listens to this quietly... it's a completely different way of thinking for her, but... it kind of sounds like something vaggie or angel or husker would say. there is a kind of logic to it, too, even if she doesn't want to consider that these people are taking advantage of wayward souls desperate to go back ]

I hope it's just them asking for you all to better yourselves, like they're saying. That price isn't too steep, in my mind. That's what I was trying to accomplish, back home, with my hotel.

[ redemption.... ]

But if they're taking advantage of you all.... [ her expression darkens, just a little bit. ] I won't stand for that.