Devaguea was willing to be talked down on the device, to as low as three days a year, with them supervising of course, but at that point he had bumped his price up to a full collection of the chronicles given to him to keep as that was a pittance compared to the information both sides wanted AND he wanted something else to go that low. The time with the plants hadn't changed, as Nyrissa didn't want anything else, and ti was minor enough they hadn't fought it.<br/><br/>But it was time with the artifact that was the sticking point. They wanted him to basically forget about the artifact, and he wasn't going to do that. While his initial paranoia about the Pathfinder Guild might have been overblown, he saw it more a case of their paranoia reinforcing each other's. Finally, after an interminable amount of back and forth, he rumbled in frustration. "Fine, one week every three years, NOT supervised, and we get a list of artifacts, relics and items in the Pathfinder's vaults to review, as well as the option to borrow one once every five years, for a duration not to exceed two weeks. That is not 'two weeks outside the vault', that is 'two weeks in my or Nyrissa's hands, being used.'"<br/><br/>Despite his posture and tone, he wasn't even slightly annoyed by how the negotiations were going. They were going to be slow and tedious, probably with several breaks as they had to send back his significant counter offers. Thankfully, he had completely cleared the day for these negotiations, and had requested Tina to work with the Pathfinders to expedited the talks.