[ He's persuasive, he'll give him that. After all this time, Wei Wuxian probably knows what approaches would work and how easily he could have dismissed an offer anyone else would have jumped at long before now. A part of that comes from how much of magic and curses remain an unknown to him. It asks for faith he rarely has in others.

Either the timing is a coincidence, or he could tell that Five is just on the edge of what he can bear before his sanity starts to deteriorate. He's still skeptical that he'll be able to do as he says, but in either case, he takes precautions. ]

I want my sister there. [ Allison might object, but he's confident he can persuade her. ] Let her ask a few questions to add some guardrails on what you're promising, and I'll agree.