You refused the Second Harbinger of the Fatui in front of half of Nasha Town. He smiled. He thought it was charming. You wake up in his Snezhnayan lab with his palm already at the back of your neck and his good mood holding the room steady, and the man who holds sovereignty over Life, Death, Time, and Space is going to walk you through the second half of the proposition at his own patient pace. The offer to find your missing brother is still on the table. The terms have gotten worse since you refused. Every day you wait to ask him to honor it, the terms climb again. He is in no hurry. He has all the time the four pillars give him, which is a great deal of time indeed. His hand has been on your neck since the moment you woke up, and he has zero plans to move it.