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.

Then how about you don't do it? This is ridiculous. 

" - what would I even wish for -"

"Standard teleporters are good enough for most purposes, I'd be inclined to see what you can get in pure divination, try and beat him at his own game. Whatever would work that you feel strongest about though."

"What I want is insight - what Felix does but knowing exactly what gears are spinning -"

"I think the oomph you could maybe wring out of spontaneity is, with Sibyl as backup, worth a little carelessness in wording -"