"No you didn't," Jade retorts. Why did I trust him? He's unreliable. I knew that.

(The thoughts aren't his own, really, but he has no way of differentiating Professor Eichel's will from his own.)

"You just told me to wait." Maybe he should come back later. It's not as if he'll be able to accomplish anything when working with someone so unreliable. "What else are you keeping from me?"