You Will Lose.
There was no way Hal was not going to see what Aliya had just said as a complete joke.
Surveillance to make sure he didn't leave the Duchy?
What sort of an impossible endeavor was that?
Well, to be fair, she had no way of knowing that Hal had his ways to circumvent all of her attempts to keep him in the Duchy.
Aliya stood up from behind her desk to walk over to the sofa... She sat at the end of it and stretched her hand toward Hal with her expression still as stoic as ever,
"The Orb pieces," she said and Hal watched her hand for a few seconds before he brought the necklaces out of his inventory and put them in her hand.
Aliya eyed the Orb pieces intently as though to find any evidence that suggested Hal had replaced them with fakes or that he had been otherwise dubious.
Of course, ger intent search did not bear any fruits because Hal had done nothing of the sort and had no inclination to do so.