I wrote the teaching contract, and read over it again after you'd made amendments.

[ He does eventually detach from Taako, and busies himself with cleaning his glasses. ]

... You can scare him a little bit if you really need to, but no murders and no immolation, ok? I'm pretty sure that if I studied up, I could provide a pretty good legal defense if he tried to sue you, but the courts might not let me be your lawyer under the circumstances.