I want to be clear that I have no intention of shaming you or making things difficult for you. If it is most advantageous that I do not speak, then I will not speak. But if someone were to genuinely threaten physical harm, I would not take to the notion kindly.

It is not that I do not think either of you capable. It is that you have agreed that, in whatever the precise manner of your people, we belong to one another. It would besmirch my character to not leave them assured that I would strip the marrow f allow you to be harmed.