"Highly unlikely," Kersen said hurriedly. "They may not do much of anything at all, and if they actually wanted to punish me it's more likely they'd..." Oh god, this wasn't going to help. He wanted to just stop there and not say, or make something up, but the look on Michael's face told him that was a bad idea. "That they'd just... chain me in silver and bury me for a while... but... but also unlikely..."

Though even as he said it, fear started to take hold.