That is a potentially very, very bad way of helping. Paris's dark blue eyes are wide and worried when Kai looks back at him, and then confused when (at least for the moment) the creature seems to actually listen.

"That worked?" he says somewhat incredulously, still looking at the Fae with some skepticism. He'd picked up that they're slightly different from the spirits he's used to, but being threatened by knives or by... basically any mortal weapon? That's incredibly off.