"I think I've made it very clear what I would like from you. Of course you are under no obligation to grant it."
"You may have one as soon as he is not being kept like this or I am reliably informed that you will stop as soon as you've got the item. If I came back and you were keeping him chained to a wall and silent I would break the illusion and feel very taken advantage of for the interim time in which I did not know I would have wanted to do that. Let's just avoid that scenario as a potentiality."
"You want to trust her with that for a few weeks?" Loki asks Maedhros.
Maybe you can ask about an evening's break? I think I might need an evening's break to figure out how to properly disentangle what I'm going along with because I want her to agree to what I want and what I'm going along with because subconsciously I'm convinced the choice is how much fight to put up, not what happens...
When she comes back I'll ask if I may pop you out for a flight or something.
Also made twenty thousand accelerated perception rocks for personnel.