Kat glanced up to the sword raised to strike her down. *No probably not while he's jumping between terrified anger and just terrified. I doubt I can make any meaningful change in such a short time…*
*But maybe that's all I need to do? Buy myself some time. What about… hmmm, so the contract is to help him with revenge… what if I instead agree to help him while he tries to take revenge for this incident. That means that once he stops trying to take revenge, the contract is complete right?*
*It gets me time, and it means that I don't have to do anything too bad, I just have to provide assistance. Maybe… help him when necessary while he tries to get revenge? I can maybe use some of my demonic leverage or whatever it's actually called to make sure that it's when I deem necessary instead of him? That should give me a lot of freedom to act while not tipping my hand too far.*
