The box was profoundly untrustworthy to Tony. It had to be magic, and what the Agrii chose to use it for seemed regularly demeaning, so he raised a lip with concern. Sending something the other way, though, that couldn't be nearly as harmful, right? At worst, it would be jettisoned into the vacuum of space.

"What do you get someone who forces you to hang out at their house?" he asked in return. "One of your stuffed toys? They gave us some of those once. They must think that's a nice gesture."