You're with us, then.

Apparently I am.  I suggest you not say anything stupid if you want to keep it that way, Keltham.

Pilar, I don't know how much time we have.  Can there be an escape party for me and everyone who loves me, that you're going to invite people to right away, in a room next to where there'd be a single Security who's relatively easy to take down.

If that many of us are gathered, next to you, there'll be more than one Security.

So instead I'm going to go back to the party I was already at, that just started, in Breakout Room Eight, where some rather mystified girls are waiting for me to explain what the party I felt a sudden impulse to invite them to one hour earlier, is about, and now that I know that, I will be able to actually tell them. 

My curse says, stay here with Ione for ten minutes, and then go to Breakout Room Four.

...who did you invite?  Was - Carissa -

Carissa, Meritxell, Yaisa, and Peranza.

Carissa.  Meritxell.  Yaisa.  Peranza.

I'm sorry.  I know you liked Tonia, even if she was clearly completely wrong for you.

Pilar, seriously not the time.

"Asmodia," he whispers, and then looks like he wants to hit himself for having spoken out loud.

...incredibly obviously never actually cared about you and isn't capable of much in the way of real feelings period.

Pilar.

I'll just show myself back to my party, then.  See you in nine minutes.

Keltham stands still for a while, looking like he's trying very hard to stop himself from crying.

Ione checks her pocketwatch, after counting to thirty inside her head, once Pilar is gone.

Message:  I'm... sorry.  I really would have thought Asmodia the type to turn against Cheliax the moment she had the chance.

Maybe - Asmodia does love you, and it's just, Pilar's curse knew, Asmodia would have screwed it up somehow, if she came with us.  Asmodia - she can screw up, sometimes, if it's not about Law.  She's sharp but she's narrow.

Keltham regains control of his expression.

Enough.

Tell me what reality is like, outside this fortress.  Actual reality.

Ione can do that for the remaining minutes!

Keltham asks a number of questions, and additional questions, some of which are clearly consistency checks relative to Law that Ione doesn't understand.

Ione is clear at all points that Cheliax is constantly lying to everyone including her and she does not vouch for the truth of anything unless Keltham is asking her questions about what she's seen with her own eyes.

Keltham occasionally also asks out loud if Ione feels ready to talk yet.

Ione will whisper each time that she still wants to be held for a while.  Almost like she's saying goodbye forever to her love, without being able to speak those words, if anyone happened to be watching the scene.

The minutes run out, and Keltham departs with Ione for Breakout Room Four.

The girls in Breakout Room Four are huddled around a Security who might or might not be dead. They look terrified, except Carissa, who looks like she has never had a feeling in her life and is going through his Bag of Holding. "Teleport takes three plus the caster," she says to Keltham flatly as he enters. "Plan that maximizes the chances you get out is for me to take you, Ione, Pilar now, Meritxell thinks she can read the second scroll. Plan that maximizes the chances everyone gets out is that Meritxell goes first so if she fucks it up I can try to salvage it, but realistically there is not likely to be anything I can do to salvage it."

"If it's not realistic to salvage then we do it the sad but sane way.  Carissa, if you betray us we're just dead, so take command here, this is an emergency and you understand this all flatly better than I do."

She stands up, hands Meritxell a scroll. Shatters the window of Breakout Room 4 with a gesture (the gesture isn't necessary). Tugs Keltham through it and away from the grounds. "Ione, Pilar -"

They reach her. She reads the scroll.

And Keltham, at that exact moment -