So they were all in agreement. William was nonetheless skeptical about the whole deal, even when Chris went ahead and gave them a different name. Who knew if it was even the one necessary to get them out of here? They'd probably find out if they were never able to escape, but nonetheless ...
Something where he was in the wrong. He'd been considering it ever since Joss mentioned him getting people discharged. There were a lot of things he wouldn't admit to even under the veil of 'secrecy' they'd set up. Hell, there were things he wouldn't admit to government agents. But this room was just a solid white brick, hollowed out to let them in. If they were going to get out and it was all depending on his answer, then he'd have to answer. But he wasn't giving them his real secrets. Just one that people wouldn't be too uncomfortable keeping.
"I've gotten men discharged from the Army, like she said." William glanced over the others to make sure they weren't suddenly going to ask any further questions. "And not because they deserved it, or needed it." There. Something he'd done in the wrong.
(But sometimes they'd just been in the wrong place at the wrong time, and, well, it wasn't his fault, now, was it?)