Erichthonios may not understand half of the terminology she uses -- capitalism and corporation both being things he is not familiar with in the slightest -- but the picture she does manage to paint for him with her words is nothing short of a hellscape.

"Horror among horrors..." he speaks in a breath, genuinely disturbed. "You... do not have to go back to that place, do you?"

He does not even know her, and yet he cannot bear the thought of someone being treated in such a way as she describes.