I didn't have anything in mind. Just whether or not you can help depends on how, quite literally, you can help.

[This is all casual, and he punctuates it by sitting down, bending his lanky frame somewhat awkwardly into the chair he'd been standing behind. The book goes on the table between them, forgotten under his hand.]

I suppose this is probably the part where I ask you something related to getting out. But seeing as how that seems particularly counter-productive or else no one would still be here, I'll go ahead and ask what you would say faced with the same order.