"Pity." She hmmms. "If you got me fifteen minutes with my pen I could program something that would look like a prearranged deadman switch alerting the authorities that something's happened to me, but it would probably be very tempting for Galen to kill the hostages... I'm assuming he's not here right now or he might burst in at any moment and notice I have one hand untied. We could skip the step in my first plan where he dies and leave in the one where you do, making it: we take out the guards, escape, and throw you at the assassins who are after Naismith. I imagine Miles might have indignant commentary about his cover dying but I much prefer it to assassins actually managing to get him. Ideally I'd like you safe too but you don't seem inclined to participate in such plans, rendering them pointless."