Carlota knows perfectly well she can't have a productive conversation with a sortition delegate from Egorian. She can barely have productive conversations with her own staff who have observed her to go an entire year and a half without a single fit of capriciously torturing people or punishing them for bearing bad news. But she does have that staff and maybe they can have a productive conversation with Delegate Tallandria, so they have been instructed to do that. For her own part she intends to spend the break preparing for the slavery debate.