Do you still call it ratting?

Did he spy or not?

I followed him into Port Royal. He's sold us clean to the King's officers.

Someone shopped us, right?

Everybody will know it was you who spied on Staffera.

And who squealed to the cops when the caper backfired?

What's ratting to them is telling the truth for you, can't you see that?

Jin Sook's husband rat us out, so we can't do it there anymore.

And if you tell and people don't believe you, then you have to go back to the situation you were in, and deal with the people who know that you told on them.