Edie was perusing the latest correspondence from her fork. She still should have been paying enough attention to realize that the door didn't go where it ought before it swung shut and she couldn't sense anyone else anymore, but she wasn't.
After opening and closing the door a couple times to make sure she hadn't just been abducted somehow, she looks around.
"I do I just don't know how to - word it or anything - and it would be kind of dumb to take suggestions from you on it so -"
"Yeah, fair." He closes his eyes and leans in a little more and shivers.
After a while he relaxes slightly. "Complete written works over a hundred thousand words in that world, so I can search for histories..."
"Thanks." There's not much; this world hasn't invented the printing press yet, after all. He starts searching.
Eventually: "You could swear that there are no facts known to you which, if I learned them, would seem to me to have been omissions from this conversation. And that you're however sure you are that you haven't resorted to amnestics, I guess."
"Um. I have enjoyed play with consenting partners along the lines of what my evil alternate seems to enjoy doing to prisoners. They also enjoyed themselves and I have absolutely no reason to think they were there for any reason other than wanting to be and I have no idea if you'd consider that an omission so there it is. I swear that I don't have any shifts in my motives or goals that are plausibly attributable to having sworn and forgotten something, don't have any gaps in my memory, expect that I would know I'd used amnestics, and also don't have a supply or access to one except via demons, and in general consider it vanishingly unlikely that I've done that at all and even more vanishingly unlikely that I'd have done it to forget having given someone unconscionable orders, there being very few of those I'd be tempted to give and even fewer that'd be useful if I didn't remember I'd given them.
I swear that there are no facts known to me which, if you learned them, will seem to you to have been omissions from this conversation."
"If they were never useful I would be considerably more bewildered about their widespread adoption."
"There's got to be a safer way to do it, ones that only enforce 'I'm telling the truth'-type oaths or something -"
"Mandos claims credit, but not especially credibly, and our daeva are way ahead of us on most tech - much older society -"
"And we were all impressed with them for ending death before Edie happened to mention that non-chipped people don't actually stop existing when they die anyway..."
"Might depend. Non-chipped humans don't, but Elves might be different. And Limbo does kinda suck..."
"Being resurrectable is great, I am just not at all sure the cost-benefit comes out ahead -
- our Melkor. Chip. Has anyone checked -"
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