I scowl at him. "Let's put the pieces together for you, then, since you can't add." I hold up a finger. "Wards are capable of trapping a demon as well as enforcing certain states," so Kusu says, anyways. I hold up a second finger. "We have an idiot we want to trap in a state that will allow him to experience a fate worse than death." I hold up a third finger. "Said idiot is a demon." I hold up a fourth. "We need to be sure we're designing the ward to elicit the proper state."