"Not if I knew what it was like -"

"The other reason addiction to Felix Felicis is bad is because it - wires you to act on every impulse you have -"

"That's only a problem presuming at some point I have to stop. Which I don't."

"People notice."

"I'm still more effective at people on it than off it."

" - but off you can get better, you can learn things, we aren't going to get old and die anymore, doing things the hard way is investing -"

"I am not fixing the world as a personal improvement exercise and I will not compromise it for personal improvement."

Sigh. "I don't like it, it makes me feel manipulated."

"When we're talking?"

"No, not when we're talking, when we're talking I'm charmed and then later, reflecting on it - which is precisely the thing that is creepy -"

"That just sounds like what it is like to interact with you for normal people."

"I have - longer-range optimization. Look, just stop it for a couple weeks, if your not-on-Felix opinion is that you want to be a manic humanitarian drug addict then fine -"

"Maybe when there's less to do."

" - I'm going to ask your alts."

"I am sure you can characterize it in a way that skews the answers. Don't."

He gestures at his necklace. "I can just bounce them the conversation exactly, like a more convenient Pensieve."

" - yeah, all right. - for the record Felix thinks I should just have tackled you ten minutes ago, I don't have to listen -"

"Thank you. For not listening."

"I tortured her. That wasn't the Felix I just urgently needed to know if you were alive."

"Our alts kind of casually massacred villages of innocents for the greater good."

"I am glad the orcs all got free will."

"And I'm glad we've got better choices for handling of future dark ladies."

Kiss?

He's hesitant. "What's the goal you have in mind at present -"

"Sleep with my boyfriend."