Section 114 is a regulation allowing psions who work in aircraft mishap prevention and certain other areas to vouch for passengers flying without ID or otherwise irregularly, although it looks like this is mostly intended to allow lockdown psions to get fasting kids within range of them for lockdown with a minimum of waiting.

Okay.  Okay, that could be a step in an ill-intentioned plan but it is not of itself an incriminating step.  For that matter, if Isabella was planning something horrifying, it wouldn't make sense to leave Thellim inside this apartment with Network access.  Unless somebody is monitoring the Network?  Precogging the results?  It still doesn't seem smart compared to - to putting guards on the apartment?  Fine, nobody on Earth has ever heard of optimizing anything possibly including their plans, but there have to be limits to that or they couldn't manually drive cars.

...Isabella should not have had Thellim imbued with English overnight before her plane trip, if Isabella was planning to enslave her.

Is that logic tight?

...It seems surprisingly tight.  Giving Thellim English hugely increased her freedom of action, created the probability that Thellim would talk to somebody else and find out about any plots that Isabella had, created the probability that she would ask somebody on the plane what doms and subs were.

Even as a cunning plot to create trust through apparently offering trust first, it's way too much risk from Putatively Malevolent Isabella's perspective.

Isabella doesn't - didn't - expect Thellim to end up opposed to her.  Giving Thellim English that quickly was an act of unambiguous initiation-of-cooperation or just plain friendship.

She supposes she can add "don't betray Isabella's help and friendship in the course of conquering her world" to the list of insane constraints here.

...getting one submissive out of a chamber like that before she died would justify - almost anything, surely? But you're not supposed to betray the logic of that algorithm period, there's just the one and you can't repair it each time it breaks a little more - across however many worlds there are - but there's an exception for understood broken promises, where obviously the promisee never had in mind a situation as extreme as the one you encountered - but Isabella would not agree with this and these circumstances are ones where "please don't conquer my world even if you don't like it" could be, no, presumably is, exactly the sort of thing where Isabella would see that as an intended retroactive condition of her help.

Thellim arrived in a house instead of three hundred distanceunits underwater in the middle of the sea.  She arrived in the house of somebody who knew Isabella.  Maybe both of those suspicious coincidences are meant to be helpful.  Maybe Isabella is - kindly enough - that Thellim could actually - talk her into a different moral position?

Because if nobody like that exists anywhere in this world, Thellim's impossible quest is going to be very lonely and probably very short.

Time to go back to Googling things, this time with an eye to world conquest.  Or, no, maybe first she should go eat a bite of food, and then resume Googling.

[Hey, I'm having second breakfast, how are you doing?]

Why now.  Thellim hasn't even had time to Google how much psions can read thoughts that aren't deliberately projected, or emotions when you're upset, which is the actual thing that Thellim should have done immediately.

[Trying to figure out how to construct elaborate hypothetical questions for you.]  Also, Isabella, let me know if you're just getting all my thoughts right now.

[Elaborate hypothetical questions, how exciting. You and the Internet getting along okay or did you immediately find porn and have a crisis?]

[Are we currently having an elaborate nested-hierarchical conversation that is mostly precognition?  Because I have other concerns about that which I haven't had time to research at all.]

[Oh, precognition can't nest. If I try to precog anything that is itself affected by precognition I drop out of it.]

[I'm worried about what happens when I'm precogged once, which I realize must be happening to everyone all the time because of lots of precogs around this world and the speed of light, but I also don't know how to navigate a conversation where precognition is happening on one side of it.  Is it possible for this conversation to apparently only take place outside of precognition as far as we know?]

[It's costly for me to precog conversations I'm participating in because I precog conditioning on my own decisions so I have to drop and retry a lot if I want to map out conversational branches, plus today I'm working so I'm already spending all the calories I can swallow on that, and I am not currently trying to precoggily manipulate this conversation because as far as I know I don't need to worry about leaving you alone for a couple hours and coming home to find that you have started World War III. If you do decide to interrupt me while I'm working I will see that as part of my precogged workday because it's not conditioned on my decisions.]

So if, hypothetically, I did need to start a planetary-scale conflict

[Poking around the Internet did start to give me the impression that I might end up really worried about this world's situation.  Though I'm not sure that worry would be - an irreconcilably bad thing from your own viewpoint?  If you came into dath ilan, would you try to stop people from offering childcare subsidies to unusually happy, healthy, intelligent potential parents?  Or try to decensor our past?  Or - if you ended up inside my house, somehow - how would you handle that situation?  How would you want me to handle that situation?]

[Uh, I guess I'd try to be one of the people who gets to read about the world's past before deciding to un-censor it, assuming there are such people, in case there's a really really great reason that I just am not thinking of. I don't think childcare subsidies are particularly bad. If I ended up in your house I would... want a place to sleep and a way to get food till I could contact Earth? Which would probably be easier than me getting your mom from here because I already know Earth people and specifically have a twin who I could telepath before anyone else. Presumably I would be swarmed by venture capitalists which, you know, sounds kind of fun unless they took up a ton of my time and I didn't have any left to practice telepathy.]

[What if dath ilan as a whole, but not all the people in it or me personally, was doing something that was wrong beyond any reasonable doubt under your own utility function?]

This isn't very clever but Thellim has had no time to plan.

[Uh, my current guess is that your culture was started that way but might not have any ongoing atrocities now that you are there, but if I showed up and discovered that you, uh, are ongoingly killing dissidents or kidnapping their kids or something - I don't know, that feels really detail-dependent, whether I had any leverage on there? Did you wander into the parts of Wikipedia that are about North Korea or something?]

[No.  What's North Korea.]

[It's a very badly managed country but they have nukes so nobody's doing anything much about it.]

Thellim notices she's pacing around the room, and tries to control her nervousness... no, wrong move, she should just let herself pace.  [But you already think North Korea is an importantly suboptimal situation, right?  What if you were my guest in dath ilan, and dath ilan was collectively doing something like that, and I - hadn't quite realized yet, that it was wrong - but you didn't know that I was necessarily beyond convincing?]

[I guess I'd try to convince you? In precognition if it seemed really delicate. Uh, is this about something you have just realized is rotten in the state of dath ilan or is this about you really not liking something about Earth even more than you already don't like anything about Earth besides sushi.]