"Do you think you can get your hands on what you need? I can maybe help if you give me an idea..." He has his ways of getting items he needs, but he has to have an idea first, that's all.

"Wow, okay... yeah, we can definitely save a few back." Because that looks like quite a few... No one will notice, right?

Or even if they do-- "We're going to get punished again anyway, right?"

So how bad can the penalty really big?

... Or maybe he shouldn't be asking that.