[Gods, this is awkward. Lucretia keeps her eye contact elsewhere as they stand and the seconds tick by. She tries her best not to look like she's counting and instead meters out a breath.]

Don't be so hard on yourself, I've seen some pretty dumb experiments. [A beat and the corner of her mouth quirks up.] One of my agents once swallowed an all-powerful artifact to keep it out of enemy hands. We're talking like, world-ending level and he swallowed it whole.

[Ah Magnus. Why.]