[Not even using the wings to fly made them all the more pointless - maybe they were nothing more but the mark of a prisoner to the Malnosso. Barbossa shook his head at Belle's words, looking at her directly with a foreboding expression.]

Everythin' about this is rather odd, I would say, and this is the most peculiar... cage I've ever been put in. And what of all these abundant conveniences that we're given, I wonder?

[If he had to guess, then it was merely a method to keep most folk quiet and at least somewhat satisfied, quelling thoughts of any potential uprising against them.]