For so high a price, who could refuse? I might start making demands at that rate myself. [Then again, he never wanted to sell his soul either.] I suppose he could even be ordered to cross universes to find you again.

[By way of explanation, he just grins. No, he doesn't. He doesn't remember anything from past the ship. He slipped to land and walked away and walked right into this world] A lifeboat, mm? How bland. But I suppose if it does the trick, no use arguing with it. You survived.