[* Mean to write "desirable". Write "viable". Okay, brain.]
[Hums out.] Very well. Certainly, that is preferable to an empty promise.
["Maybe in the future circumstances will be such that I won't let you 'stop' me and then you'll wish you had tried talking it out first, fair warning"... only now he's feeling all judgmental and like Porthos doesn't deserve a fair warning, so.]