A kind headmaster. [Sure, if he was the only one who gave them a place to live when no one else would, even with being forced into military, he must seem like a saint.]

Keep looking in to any information about the Time Compression or the workings of the place itself. It'll take some time to get a ship together but, just know that if you leave to join me, you'd be working under me as a pirate with everyone against you. You up for that?