Only if you've got an idea for turning the preferred strategy of the greatest threat of my world against her.

[He was energetic enough for sass, but there was a certain hollowness to the tone-- as if he were tapping into something as dry, brittle, and ancient as a forgotten tome.]

...I've got info Salem wants, [Oscar confessed with a painful sigh.] And I know she's not going to kill me until she gets it. All I've gotta do is hold out and wait for the right opportunity. Whatever that is.