Connie casts skepticism on the idea of making a deal with someone else to save her counting as saving herself.

But the actual possibility of a way out more than overshadows her wanting to be a butt to this guy. Steven... Steven had mentioned making contracts with the Ringmaster, hadn't he? Everything she'd done in the haze of the ball was only slowly being pieced back together, like she was waking up and trying to recall a dream.

"She can do that? She can break the Prince's thrall?"