"All right."

Obadiah gets up and goes to his closet. He opens it and gets a black suede flogger from a shelf.

"I got this," he says, "in case the crop was too much for you last time."

(In the back of his mind, he reminds himself that he is not actually telling this to Tony, and thus may end up having to repeat himself at some point down the line.)

"I'm glad I didn't need it, I'd already hit enough items on the S&M porn checklist as it was," he adds dryly.