"Yeah.  I can understand that."  Granted, most of the experienced negotiators in their world knew tactics like that...but even so, it was still hard for them to resist the urge to panic in those cases.  "No, I don't think it sounds silly.  A bit more metaphorical than I actually would go, but it's not ridiculous."  She turned around to look at Ashley.  "What do you think?  Go with that?  I think the three of us in the room can all agree that you're probably the expert amongst us in this sort of situation."  She was apparently clueless, and Kanae had the social graces of...well...no.  She wasn't going to actually say it.