"I'll - send someone for the Teleport once I've set it up."

"Acknowledged."

Is she annoyed that he's still here?  Will she be more annoyed if he tries to leave without being ordered to go?  That sounded like a dismissal and if he was dismissed he can be not around Carissa Sevar any more... no, can't risk it, she'll tell him to go if he's supposed to go.  You can't get away from the Carissa Sevar; she can leave, but you can't make her go away.  Maillol tried to wish her away a lot before, and that didn't work.

"You can go."

He walks out faster than he walked in.

If Asmodeus doesn't think she did anything wrong there, if Asmodeus thinks that's fine -

- that's not a good line of thought. How about, instead, she does her job and gets this report done. 

....and figures out someone to be project administration.

Shit. 

After a while of wallowing pointlessly because all the Wisdom in the world can't fix being human and contemptible and stupid, she ends up writing Alexite Thrune, entirely on the grounds that he is not as far as she knows completely incompetent and isn't Abrogail or Aspexia. She wants a recommendation for a project administrator, does he know anyone? She also wants a recommendation for a nice quiet retreat somewhere with absolutely no important people, does he have a recommendation for that?

It'll go out in the evening Teleport.

She informs the other Project administration/logistics staff that Maillol is on medical leave because she broke him maybe-irretrievably and is now seeing if it's retrievable. She wants to have some more appealing explanation than that but - well, if she wanted to be able to tell people something better she'd have had to do something better. 

She spends most of the evening on Project administration and then much of the night on refining her headband-assembly-line to reflect peoples' idiocy actual use, and then she gets a Deep Slumber cast when she still can't sleep after that.

Somewhere else is a person now wearing a +6 Intelligence headband, with an Owl's Wisdom and Eagle's Splendour cast on him beside.

He is, in Golarion terms, +7sd Intelligence, if not quite +7sd thinkoomph.  Out of dath ilan he'd be +5sd Intelligence: he started out +0.8sd for his world in thinkoomph, and his Intelligence score if measured there would be a bit above that; and then taking him up +6 Intelligence points locally, boosts his Intelligence as such by around +4sd in dath ilani terms.  The standard-deviations are narrower, in dath ilan, what with all the selection they've been doing on their existing variance, and many environmental causes of variable negative effects having been optimized away.

There are aspects of thinkoomph not accounted for by Intelligence and Wisdom and Splendour.  That person doesn't match a dath ilani genius on those dimensions, but in them he's also well above a Golarion person selected for equivalent pre-augmentation abilitystats.  A Golarion person selected to match his Golarion abilitystats is an outlier on those abilitystats, and has probably regressed towards the mean on unmeasured aspects of cognition.  This person comes from a world that tried hard to select on actual thinkoomph; his base abilitystats in Golarion are only the side effect, modulo slightly higher Intelligence and significantly lower Wisdom than would be considered average in his world.

He's been issued with a cognitive toolkit that can use much more Intelligence than the standard cognitive toolkit out of Golarion can absorb.  His toolkit includes adequate base knowledge for him to somewhat adapt that cognitive toolkit to having more Intelligence available.

On occasions when he has time to think and strategize and his thoughts span over time and accumulate, the resulting viewpoint may no longer be described in a way understandable to the average person out of Golarion or even an above-average wizard... or maybe you could describe it, if you were willing to go on at sufficiently great length and do a lot of translation, but it would not be fun to hear about.  He is now actually doing things like considering the top twelve possibilities and putting numerical probabilities on them.

That person was leaving Cheliax mostly alone while he went about his other business.

Then Asmodia vanished and Carissa Sevar sold her soul.

Separating aside emotional responses, even on the larger gameboard it no longer seems particularly like he ought to leave Cheliax alone.  Evidently, things will go on happening there even if he leaves it alone.

Subsequent reports of a nobles' gathering in Cheliax are not reassuring.  Taking both reports and the observations within reports at face value, Carissa is becoming relatively less aligned.  She has an artifact headband to become a cognitive power opposing him and also with some of the dath ilani toolkit.  Ione can report of her pre-Nefreti knowledge that a soulsold Carissa probably now has at least 3 Wishes with which to enhance herself.

"Doing nothing and hoping nothing happens" was always a questionable option at best.  He discards it now.

The next morning she sets out bound and determined to hang a fifth circle spell and also everything else, or at least the utility spells she's accustomed to - Detect Thoughts, Unseen Servant.

She'll get maybe a quarter-hour in before there's an emergency interrupt.  Somebody, presumably a 9th-circle somebody or an 8th-circle who got very lucky, just hammered a scry past the Project wards and set off scry detection.

To be specific, the scry detection of a Security less than 40ft from Carissa Sevar's bedroom.

Security has standing hidden orders from Egorian about this situation, and they don't involve Carissa Sevar staying in her bedroom after that happens.

She has three rounds to collect magic items, valuables, or clothes if applicable and prioritized.

Spellbook, Bag of Holding and sure, she'll grab a dress, so as not to potentially get kidnapped by Keltham in her nightclothes. Unless on reflection she thinks that's tropier - save that for later. 

The fortress's 7th-circle, Commander Hadrian, is here, and Elias Abarco and Olegario.  Hadrian casts a heavily metamagiced Nondetection on her, and then those three hustle Carissa Sevar out of the fortress, to the edge of the Forbiddance, with scry detection up on full.

She does not ask where they're going; she doesn't, actually, need to know.

- unless they're not in fact acting in her interests, here, like if this is an assassination attempt from either Church or Crown. She....suspects not, though. If Abrogail wanted her dead she'd have done it last night and Aspexia would not kill off the Chosen of Asmodeus (for real now!) with no indication from Asmodeus He wanted that done. 

They Teleport immediately once they're out of the Forbiddance -

- arrive in what looks to be a Stoneshaped underground cavern, with (to arcane sight immediately visible even without any further analysis) an ongoing Permanent abjuration effect running over the whole visible cavern, and then they're moving forward, crossing another threshold of arcane-sight-visible Forbiddance, towards a heavy steel door that gets unlocked by inaudibly whispered magical password, and then they're inside a safehouse/cell with walls that look like iron and are no doubt at least 1 inch of iron.  The wide-area Abjuration is running here too.

The steel door swings shut.

"At ease, Sevar," says Commander Hadrian.

Carissa's heartbeat is going to take a while to believe him about that.

- well, this sure is ambiguous between being a safehouse and a prison more than most places are. Probably it gets used for both, as needed.

"I'd like regular situation updates," she says, and sits, so the fact her legs are shaking won't be visible, and calms herself by concentrating on identifying the wide-area abjuration that's not the Forbiddance - Mage's Private Sanctum. Extremely reasonable. It prevents all divinations aimed at those inside. Fifth circle, which means she can learn it now. The only reason they didn't have it blanketing the Project fortress is that it prevents Detect Thoughts. 

"All apparently normal on the Project and I'll let you know the instant an anomaly is reported, we get orders relayed from above, or my Telepathic Bond breaks," says Commander Hadrian.  "If you have analysis urgently to report to Egorian I can relay via the fortress."

"Not at this time. Do you have Plane Shift, or an item of it, or an open slot into which you could prepare it right now."

"Why do you ask."

"If Keltham explodes Cheliax we go to Dis and regroup from there. Dispater has named me his favored possession, I can operate there unbothered at least for a little while, and Keltham can't Wish-kidnap me from the second layer of Hell. Further justification involves a secret I thought no one at all was cleared to know, but it's barely possible you might be, as you're on the Project in part to read my mind; do you know of what I'm speaking, or not."

"I've been informed of two major Church secrets involving two elements of your soulsale price.  These two are not cleared to know about either secret."

"I don't have a tuning fork* for Avernus.  This is an oversight and if you deem it urgent enough can be corrected by Teleport."

(*)  A metaphorical usage of 'tuning fork' but a standard one in Golarion when speaking of Plane Shifts.

"I'd say it's urgent, yes."

"Acknowleged," says the Commander.  He pauses, no longer than a round or two.  "ETA 1 minute from Egorian."

If this was an attack by Keltham, Egorian won't be there in one minute. If it was something else - a feint, a routine spy operation that got noticed this time for some reason, a communication with someone, a test of their defenses -

(- a test - is it possible that this is, again, Abrogail, that she's in a Mindscape as she must have been last time she awoke to an unexpected catastrophe, that the Queen is checking whether Carissa Sevar, in fact, presented with the opportunity to claim the throne of Cheliax -

- if it is such a test, news will come soon that Abrogail is dead -

- Carissa's going to be so annoyed, if that's what's going on, she's busy, she has important work to do!)