[ He did prepare enough to pick up fire crystals, but the horse was unplanned for, is what he doesn't say. He'll just have to trust that Jarlaxle can carry things through somehow. ]

I have long accepted I need not see your plans in action to accept that they often work. [ Said with the tone of someone who's just gone well, this might as well happen. ] You seem to have perhaps a disproportionate amount of luck, for reasons I do not understand, but it has served you well.

So you will distract the beast, and I will gather anything valuable-looking from the altar. Ideally, you will then dismount, and we can make a clean escape. Is that the shape of it?