"You made an error, in opposing my interests here, or in seeking to warn that man against me."
"It's not to my interest to let Creation be threatened, if I don't think I have a chance to escape Creation. Having learned this much, in this way, if I failed to come to alliance terms with this man, I would eliminate the threat to Creation after I'd investigated it. There would be no constraints on how I used that knowledge, which I'd have learned regardless."