[That earns the slightest crack of a smile. It's not fake by any means, but it also is clearly restrained, someone who isn't used to it.]

I technically can't be dying for anything since I'm already a ghost, but I would like to ask any number of things.

But if you'll permit only one, as someone who's curious and not as a warden, I've not heard of the Federated Alliance, but you sound Russian... is that something from your world?