I don't know if it will be considered cheating, but if the wishes are powerful enough to potentially pull the Netherese Orb from me or stop a war or any other significant event, I think--

[ he starts to bring his hand up again, realizes astarion is going to smack him a second time, and puts it down in his lap instead. ]

If even one of us survives to the end, perhaps we could use its power to restore life. It wouldn't ... solve our problems, so to speak, but we'd be alive to consider those problems.