Because we don't need to give him incentive to tell the gods exactly what we're doing and who's involved.

[Which is something Lance is concerned about. He's also concerned about people Curufin knows and might tell, who might then tell the gods; he barely knows Curufin's family and most of those he does know are also lacking in judgement, and then of course there's Yukari.]

But I'm hoping he does mean it when he says he'll let me make the final decision about whether or not he should be involved in the rotation, which I don't want him to be. But I need to talk to Michael and Nick and figure out what they do and don't know, because I'm not sure they have the whole story if they gave approval for him to be here.

[He rubs the bridge of his nose idly, definitely getting a headache.]

And for the record I had no idea what Ravine was doing there, or who invited her. I barely spoke with her and she tried to be cryptic the entire time, but really just said a lot of nothing.

[Needless to say he wasn't impressed.]