"Yes.  I'm having trouble imagining how it couldn't, and also, I think you ought to know this, it is very very hard to take at face value that if I said 'no' you wouldn't kill me.  I am, to be clear, listening to what you say, and tracking the possibility that it is actually true.  You're just behaving in a very odd way by local standards, if so."

"Yes.  I'm having trouble imagining how it couldn't?  And also, I think you ought to know this, it is very very hard to take at face value that if I said 'no' you wouldn't kill me.  I am, to be clear, listening to what you say, and tracking the possibility that it is actually true.  You're just behaving in a very odd way by local standards, if so."