And what would you mean by that?

[A little more animation, a note of grimness, creeps back into his voice; his mouth curls downward in disgust.]

There is no good ending to bargains with such forces, and less still for the people who would think to make them.

[It's the most thought he's put into the mechanics of time compression so far himself, beyond the basic, nearly unshakable assumption that some magic is at work.]