[Well, Ish has always been more or less honest with her, even when she was trying to work around him or stack the deal in her favor.]

I don't know what I have that you could want on my own. [She will be honest in turn, then. Her emotions haven't always interested him, and she does not have any spells or magic knowledge that a millennia-old witch would want in trade.] But you need time to help her, right? I can be useful to Yamnabagiri in sealing up this tear to give you that time.

[At least she can offer the one thing she was never meant to have much of in her life.]