[ If he ever hears Boba compare Santa's Workshop to prison, he is never letting the kid live that one down. But ok, it is mask-off time in order to talk. Miguel does move forward, hands raised in a placating manner. It wasn't to gain ground so much as to press the point in as gentle a manner as he could manage. ]

Keeping you out of trouble achieves the same goal.

[ Having seen the cuffs, it doesn't take much for him to piece together why the kid was so stringent on securing a method of escape. Who could blame him? Who knows how long he'd been imprisoned. ]

The intercept was an executive decision on my part. If you want to blame anyone, blame me.

But if you need to know, the reason you shouldn't leave is because you look like you've been doing pretty terribly at 'taking care of yourself' without the pressure of being out in the wild.

[ the sunken eyes? the pale complexion? he looked absolutely awful. ]

So why don't we work on that first?