Conditionally.

It sounded good, but you knew that blind agreements can be very dangerous. “I will accept her, if she fits in with the group, pays attention and does not cause problems. She will have to carry her own weight in the party. I will treat her as I would any other potential student.”

Halma nodded. That was acceptable.

You continued “For the general plan. . . . I accept, in principle. However, you have to actually try to act on what is discovered, or I will expose it. You can even announce that you have asked me to help teach your people the system from this perspective.”

You smiled slightly, “And thus I am just tutoring your people as I was created for.”

Halma had to asked one very important question