"Mmm, somewhat reassuring but I'm not hearing any ideas about how I'm to gather materials and make in secret a number of deadly weapons and their ammunition. So I assume that bit will be left to me to figure out?"

Well, not impossible, Mat's clever and he's certainly done things in secret before.

"Because while the brunt may come down on you or my magic tutor, that doesn't mean it won't come down on us all in some way." He's seen how Thorne responds to threats. It's not in what he'd call a rational way.

"How many bows were you seeing me craft?"

Blood and ashes, there's so many things to think about, if he commits to doing it. Maybe he's being an idiot, maybe he ought to forget about the whole thing. What would he even be risking his hide for?