[It's an answer that seems so earnest, Haise feels a greater stab of reluctance for it. Thanks to their added time on Nalawi, he's known Laedo for twice as long as he's known some of his other associates, and he knows what he's asking is surely burdensome. If it were avoidable, he'd rather not impose this on anyone, much less someone he might hazard to call a friend...

But Laedo has seen something of what he is, and from what Haise has observed here and there, he knows that he's strong. Though he has very little experience, he's rather sure that a ghoul should have no inherent resistance to magic, something which his dragon associate is proficient in.

He keeps his eyes down, attention drifting from his squidge to the water, when Haku settles on his lap again]

There may come a time when I'm not myself anymore. If that should ever happen...

[Haise trails off, knowing the weight of what he's about to ask, and knowing that it's surely not the sort of request Laedo must have expected from him]

If it happens...I'll need you to put a stop to me.

[The words are quiet, entirely too calm for the meaning attached to them, as though he's speaking about a matter separate from himself. He's always lived with the assurance that if he did become a liability, he would die. It had always been that simple. And much as he feared it, he fears hurting his associates far more.

Between his existence and their safety, there is no question]