And I haven't demanded your other solutions since, have I? You offered up the information that you would take from Kaveh.

[He lets out a breath.] And nothing about Kaveh can be owned.

[A pause. It's an admittance that comes too close to things he prefers not to give life to at all. But he's running on a daze of no sleep and compulsions being pushed into his bones. He'll acquiesce.] Kaveh is an influencing factor in why I'm offering. But it's my own decision to offer my blood to you regardless if you accept or reject it. I'm doing it because I want to.