"You have a gift Alister, a rare gift that others need and value. You should be more appreciative of your good fortune." Granted, a gift for being bait wasn't the best ever handed out. "Would it help if I fluttered my eyelashes and looked all small and helpless?"

"I know that if whoever built this place was that specific about which tentacles go in what holes I'm going to travel back in time and castrate them."