"Very reasonable. So I'm going to mark this as - not satisfactorily answered until we have a devil to tell everyone the bounds of what I can get away with - the problem is that junior devils aren't going to know for sure, and I can't actually casually command the time of senior ones. But I'll figure it out."

Is it possibly over?

Nope! That was the first question. Now, second question.

Peranza obviously isn't going to run out of the room screaming.  That impulse gets trained out of you before you can actually form long-term memories.

Would the pharaoh of Osirion trade his crown to her if she could kidnap Keltham and deliver him to Osirion -

"Asmodia.  Are you plotting how to get your hands on an overpowered headband, instead of listening to me?"

"Yes.  I was thinking about whether I could seduce my way into the pharaoh of Osirion's harem."

"I now, on the one hand, regret ever mentioning to you that the pharaoh's crown was a thing, and, on the other hand, regret much less that I didn't try on that headband myself.  Maybe, if we consulted with more senior wizards, there'd be a way to extract some of that conviction from me, and directly infuse it into Keltham -"

"You are going full Nethys again.  Also I predict Maillol vetoes it."

"Well since you refuse to check any of those predictions -"

"Given that he just got Raised, Maillol should be asleep right now.  His Ring of Sustenance won't kick in much before ours do.  So I'm batching them up and before I check with him I will write down my predictions with probabilities for each question, like a good girl.  Which Keltham will later tell us is a training exercise for dath ilani, I predict with 99% probability."  (Asmodia did try to adjust her confidences downward after Keltham warned her that 99.99% was too much.)

"Keltham told us that we should do that if we were using divine advice to check about, what was it, which corn-breeding plans would be disastrous.  You don't get to count that as a prediction."

"I don't think Keltham said to use probabilities then, so I get to count that."

"Look, we're drifting off-topic again, probably because of something to do with the ratio of time we've spent awake to asleep over the last day.  Did you say anything important while my attention drifted off?"

"I think I delivered a prophecy, but now I don't remember it either takaral."

"Interesting.  I can actually tell you said takaral on purpose."

"I wasn't trying very hard to fake it."

"Look, I'm not feeling happy about this Gregoria Suicide Plan.  I bet Sevar also won't be happy about this Gregoria Suicide Plan.  I bet Maillol is unhappy in a way that involves fire."

"We'll be fine.  They wouldn't use fire in Taldor."

"They would if somebody showed them this plan."

"You invented this idea and three-quarters of what's in here!"

"That doesn't mean I can't look back, think about how far I've come, and realize exactly where I have arrived."

"Also all the problems are in the remaining one-quarter, obviously."

"I think the logic is probably a lot clearer if you have grasped the key fragment of the Law of Probability, which, once you possess it, reshapes all of your thoughts and not just those thoughts which involve numbers -"

"Asmodia, listen to me.  If this were a temple of Nethys and I were in charge, this would be the point at which the experienced fourth-circle cleric of Nethys tells the first-circle cleric of Nethys that she is clearly on an exciting journey of the mind full of new ideas, and she's going to be locked in a nice safe cell with no weapons or spellbook until she finishes takaral."

"How fortunate for Project Lawful that I am in charge and not you.  Also you've never in your life been to a temple of Nethys, stop making things up."

"I flipped through all the Taldor romance novels looking for any mention of the word 'Nethys' and there were two pages about a temple of Nethys in one section."

"And that's the point where the high-ranking Asmodean sets the low-ranking Asmodean on fire.  Yes yes you're not Asmodean, fine."

"Look, I'll try to put the Law I'm using into words, you may well be able to follow if you pay attention.  What we're trying to avoid doing is letting Keltham narrow down a single Conspiracy world that he can figure out.  We want to do things that make internal sense in the Ordinary world, even if they might seem sort of weird and complicated there, but which would be more complicated and hard to square up internally in the Conspiracy world.  Yes, there's ultimately a world where that all makes sense, because we're living in it, but we want to make that world hard for his mind to narrow in on, and when we use weird complicated logic that's inconsistent with the logic we've previously used, that helps us so long as it's less weird inside the Ordinary world."

"The fact that we told him about Cunning and headbands isn't good but it also means that we were stupid then, and now if we do something very complicated and smart and clever about it, even if Keltham thinks of that possibility, it won't match up with our previous stupidity in telling him about Cunning at all."