[Good news: there's no sign of spreading wings just yet, ruffled or otherwise.]

You're wrong. You're asking me to do a very cruel thing, Mister Dickerson. To ruin your prospects with him. And to wound him. And then to act as if I had no part in it just because he will likely choose to ignore it.

Will it be worth it, do you think? [Shouldn't sound like a genuine question, but it does.] If you do have only a little time and use it all up on Wardening?