You haven't set the terms, Jinx. What does 'leaving him alone' mean? No contact completely, no verbal contact, no physical contact? [He had once waxed and waned in his normal diatribe lessons before, but she probably hadn't been paying attention.] And what if we find ourselves in a situation where I want you to do something and you refuse? The deal is over or renegotiated? What are his terms?

[He didn't feel like a deal was going to work, and he was going to dig in that it wasn't made by the boy himself. This wasn't between him and Jinx after all, so he had little interest in not pushing the boy.]