"I'd just as soon you didn't anyway," Obadiah says, mostly truthful. "I imagine Tony's going to have a few questions when you go downstairs later and I'd rather the answers not be anything he won't want to hear."

There is of course the part of him that doesn't care about that logic, doesn't care about the consequences, just wants what it wants and wants it now, but it's been a very long time since that part was truly in control.