Nay, I just called it a cop out because in the time it takes Neo to speak, walk to his car, and start the engine, it's entirely possible for Lycodrake or someone else to stop him. Instead of declaring only the beggining of the action and the intent, you wrote all of it as though you were assuming Neo can go ahead and leave scot-free.
I think your post makes for poor reading if then someone who is able to decides to interrupt him instead.
B'sides, Gwyllt's fire can't hurt Neo, we've established this. 8P
Sure he's not very inclined to keep talking, but maybe he will be after he unloads some tension with Wanderer. Or maybe he won't give Neo a chance to talk and try to cut him into ribbons again, since the discussion with Neo made Gwyllt go from "I don't like this guy" to "This guy is despicable and wicked and he needs to die now".
Anyways, Neo engaged Gwyllt to begin with, and it was his arguments and personality that led to the latter escalating to violence, so he can't be expected to run away from the narrative consequences of his choices just like that.
