"If you say so."

"I can ask him. But I would probably have killed her if I'd had the chance, including if I already had her prisoner. There are better options now, but -"

"I was able to get Felix to use words, does Fredrick ever do that -"

"I haven't seen him do that, I could ask."

"It seems like it might help. We keep talking about it like it's a person, maybe it's got something to say."

He describes what Miranda did. "Try it?"

" - yeah, okay. Not with you looking over my shoulder, whenever you're around I think it changes focus to trying to get me through that specific conversation without being kidnapped."

" - sorry."

"It's okay." He Disapparates.

...Timothy reports this conversation.

"Can somebody else look over his shoulder? Someone with few kidnapping proclivities. Rebecca or something."

"I don't know exactly where he is. I can text him and suggest it."

Still has the problem where it skews answers to what is most advantageous to report rather than what I want to know.

"I am no longer sure this was a good idea."

"I continue to think we should probably kidnap him."

"I'm not going to stop you."

Timothy paces miserably for a while. "Yeah, okay. Where is he?"

A teleporter is fetched. 

It transpires he is somewhere warded.

"Oh for fuck's sake."

Fredrick what are you doing escalating just means more resources get wasted on this and there's less reason to think it's safe -

I'm not escalating. I haven't hurt anyone and won't hurt anyone, you have precogs, you can check. I'm declining to cooperate with my kidnapping, because I'm not done stabilizing everything.

Please.

I told you at the very start when I'd be okay with taking a break.

"If you happen to feel more strongly about this than the average magic rock..."

Fredrick I'm going to resent spending irreplaceable peal resources on kidnapping you.