The terms are simple: she wants the workshop. She will take the house and the debt and the blade and she will win, and in return she will not kill you.

TaliaI'm not being kind. I'm being efficient. You are the only other keeper who has read the back of the ledger.

She pours the second glass herself and hands it over without asking whether you drink.

TaliaYou look at me like I'm a door you can walk through. Everyone does. It gets very tiring, being architecture.

She is closer than she was. You did not see her move.

TaliaSo don't. Or do, and mean it.