"We'll need to pact, which means an exchange of services or restrictions of some kind. With me working on Daisy a-nights, we might need to get you to sleep in the middle of the day when we work, but...I need to stress that these oaths are inescapably at knife's point. Keep your word and fate will bless you. Break it, for any reason, any reason at all, even if no sane being could possibly blame you, and fate will curse you. I can do what I can to rig the game, but those are the terms on which you sit the table."