"Maybe."

"I would kind of like to know if the people we have up here are causing him horrible torment by picking at their nails exactly the way Melkor does it or something but I can't think of any way to learn things like that without dosing him occasionally to ask and that doesn't seem - warranted -"

"Do you think you are likely to have phobias like that."

"No."

"Are there people you would not want to have as visitors who alternate universe versions of you might find perfectly good company -"

"Not if they don't hurt me it's okay until they hurt me -"

"This right now is okay?"

"This is terrifying but not because you look like me and like Maitimo."

"- that's all I have that needs Veritaserum, do you -"

"Did this knock you out of your not thinking thing."

"Yes."

"Are you going to redo it -"

"Yes."

"If you were permanently out of Angband and no one was reading your mind, would you want us to let you do that? Alternatives include continuing to dose you and have people talking with you so you can't redo it or checking interactions with various other forms of mind-affecting magic available to us."

"It only does its job if you can't stop me."

"But this doesn't count as demonstrating ability to stop you?"

"Not quite."

"- Cam do you want to keep him dosed while we figure out what to do- do you think the higher dose would qualify as proof -"

"Might. Worth a shot but - is there a way to cut him off if we phrase a question badly -?"

"Asking another one, or I can make us unable to hear him -"

"Kib, if this potion you're on got way more itself would you cut it out with the not thinking?"

"Probably."

"Should I knock you out again or will you have a second dose?"

"I can't stop you!"

"Yes, but would you try."