“As, more or less, an interrogation expert,” Virmad says, “I take Alaric’s point to be that continuing to think of this as an interrogation isn’t likely to get us anywhere. Jedao is dangerous: we all agree on that, I think; it would be foolish to pretend otherwise. But, having already broached the topic of overthrowing the -archate with him,” — he glances at Reshad here — “the longer we treat him as our prisoner rather than our ally, the more difficult it will be to earn his trust. He’s already offered us a significant token of good faith, in the form of the confirmation that he also wants to overthrow the -archate, and the fact that he’s working for someone already. I think — taking as many precautions as possible — the least we could do, to start with, would be to let him stand up and walk around his room, even if we decide to restrict him just to his room for the time being.”