"I agree." A marketable skill - one that would actually be able to be shown on his history - would help him in the future, when Stark eventually became bored of him. He's one of those slaves who changed hands often, and knows this would be no different. Temugin gives it six months at the outside before, like all of them, Stark gets bored.

And being handed off like a hot potato isn't exactly the fast track to freedom.

He'd end up doing what was necessary to survive. Freedom, he knows, is something he shouldn't waste his time pining for. Either plan or don't. Dreaming will get you nowhere.