"You may determine if you can trust my free cooperation by asking," says Arcane. "I have no knowledge of your criteria. But I am entirely capable of predicting how and under what circumstances I might change my mind. It is overwhelmingly unlikely that I will abandon cooperating with you unless you turn out to be secretly malevolent, or you fuck up the conquest of the Queenscourt so irreparably that the only sensible option remaining is to flee as far and as fast as possible."