Rita frowns. Of course it wouldn't be easy. Even she isn't sure it's possible to manipulate a fae like this... but this is a world where the impossible can be possible. They just have to find the right words for it.

So she tries it. "The fae denied it, of course. He'd never known a mortal to wield such power, to bend the will of a fae. But the multiverse is a big place, and for all his objections, it was very much possible that there were such powers beyond his knowledge."

In an all-too-deliberate manner, she adds, "After all, after everything he went through in Portland, he couldn't be sure he understood anything anymore."