Aye, but I'm - I'll forgive and forgive, Valen, anything that went before, it's long in the past for me, but if you lie again - I have an idea. What if when I raise a matter that makes you uncomfortable, you tell me so, that you'd rather not speak of it. Tell me to shut up, may it please ya, and I'll do so rather than push you into a lie. Do those terms work?
I'm fair tempted to hound the man just to show him what I think of his damned protocol, but that'd be proper stupid and reactionary.