Aster's not sure why it's so important to him to push this point. He isn't even sure why Dan suddenly doesn't like taking orders, when Dan hasn't so much as raised a single objection to Aster directing him around the farm chores. He supposes they've never disagreed on an approach to a job - well, they are now. A little bit.

I got a tendency to fuck things up when they start going well for me. Aster wants to say that Dan hasn't fucked anything up at the farm at all, but he finally started noticing the quantity of wine bottles that are missing in a cellar that has been dusted for the first time in half a year. That opened his eyes up to the absence of left-behind whiskey, both of which he's ignored all this time because there's no good that could come of him opening a bottle.

But this isn't the time to bring that up, and Aster doesn't want to bring it up at all when it turns out Dan heard him, and didn't think it was inappropriate either.

"I just want to get through all this together. Get some good news back to Lady, that we've learned something and nobody's the worse off. Being bait lends itself to being worse off." He shrugs, awkward. "I just worry."