[ Look!! It's a little hard to respond to sarcasm when you're bound to tell the truth. That, and Sebastian probably would have just told the truth regardless. He finds being honest in the face of sarcasm a little more fun. After all, the response gets him to laugh, and he shakes his head. ]

Hardly. Though perhaps a "while ago" is relative, now that you mention it...

[ A few years, a few centuries, same thing, right? ]

But even so, I admittedly do not know how useful it may be. It depends on the sort of "prison," and even then... It was a bit more organized effort than this. There was more time to prepare, essentially.