Would it not be more responsible, then, to make it a certainty that he would not?

[It's easy enough to do. He'd thought about it for a moment back in the Lab. One step off the side of that tower and the entire problem would have been neatly solved - only, he couldn't do that in front of Arven.]

Do I want to be here? [Really, what does that matter?] It is preferable to where I was before. I have not been of much use, but so long as I am not taking up any resources, I suppose that may change at some point.