[More than anything, he wants to tell them that he can defend himself. Focus on finding a means to escape—focus on something that won't end with heaps of bodies lain at his feet again. There is no one here he counts dear; that means all his closest advisers will be elsewhere.

Oberin sighs.]

I agree with Laurence. We may be able to bait them into the trap if someone is able to act as decoy. I would volunteer to double-bluff, but that would put all of us at risk.