"Okay, while the spell's up, I do not want anyone who prefers to live to die if there are other reasonable options, with of course the relevant caveat that leaving other people to want to die and unable to do so is in no way a reasonable option and that is my suspicion about the typical quivering flesh cube."

" - they don't want to die, dead outsiders don't go anywhere, they just stop existing."

"Well, if you want to change my opinion on this I guess we could try to find a way to securely interview a flesh cube? There are daeva who want to die and they're not even flesh cubes, it's not that bizarre. They can't, but they can be kept unconscious, so there are some people keeping them under."

" - why would they want to die?"

"They don't like being alive and nothing they have tried has solved this problem."

"That doesn't make any sense."

"Well, I said it under a truth spell and told you what to try to change my mind. What would a fully informed version of myself advise me to ask you?"

"I believe you, I just - it's horrible, and it doesn't make any sense given anything else I know, and I don't know what to think of it. I guess we can - ask some petitioners from Hell if they'd rather stop existing, it seems - important - and I could have someone torture me like they will in Hell? I don't know if anyone but devils can do that or if they'd agree to for enough payment and living people are too weak to really benefit but it would - still be informative, maybe -"

"I don't like this plan - like, I acknowledge your self-ownership and such but it seems at minimum inconveniencing while and possibly after conducting the experiments."

"Yeah, it will be massively inconvenient and maybe impossible. But - I don't really see myself changing my mind about - whether I'm better off alive than not-alive - unless torture in Hell is really different from just normal torture."

"Have you considered that you might be weird?"

"Sure, but I don't see reason to think I'm so wildly weird that most other people want to be dead instead of alive just because they're getting tortured! That's not - a little weird, that's - a completely alien species!"

"...well, how sure are you of your parentage?"

He's joking. She's almost sure and she's not going to embarrass herself by taking him seriously when he's joking. 

"I guess that's one theory."

Shrug. "I think you're weird and will persist in this belief until presented with evidence about statistically interesting numbers of people from Golarion who are not you but I will try to bear in mind that if I encounter you in your flesh cube chrysalis you probably don't want a mercy-kill without at least checking in first."

"That is upsetting to think about but thank you I guess!"

"You're welcome! So. What would a fully informed version of myself advise me to ask you?"

"How to get me to defect, presumably. What would a fully informed version of myself ask you?"

"How to send me home, maybe?"

"That can be done without dying? I - 

- actually can't really think of any circumstances under which I'd want to? Maybe I could ask you for a lot of diamonds for me in exchange for a lot of humanitarian aid for the world and then retire to Axis in comfort but - 

- there's a lot of bad things about the world, right, and I'm not actually so weak that I'll quit."

"If we can come to an agreement about which bad things we can accomplish a lot! Technology jump and diamonds and spellsilver and infrastructure!"

"Yes! So I don't want to send you home unless you're dead set on giving weapons to my country's enemies!"

"Inconvenient that you are from the most aggressively nonhumanitarian country on there. Probably we'd have a grand time if instead we were terraforming Mars or bringing resources to Limbo."