Do you wish to sever it?

[There is nothing slippery about the way he addresses it this time. No need to slither out of it. The solution is easy.]

If you believe what you're being told, it's as I said: easy enough to fix. If you think you're being manipulated and led on, Rosalind, if you think you bearing a piece of the Starscourge at all eases even a small part of me...

[What a laughable thought. How many are so quick to assume.]

Then just say the word.