"Not our job to know. Whoever sent you here will have included a document explaining why they sent you here. The Deputy Headstomper won't believe everything you say, and he also doesn't believe everything he reads."
The Party-Hat Guards open a gate set into the golden prison-sphere--though it's not obvious, among all the ornamentation, what was lock or hinge--and start uncoupling Opalyn's chains from the bars, though she's still wearing the cuffs and it's still sending that little trickle of interfering power through her.