Thellim is very grateful for help in this regard.
After she's down, she forces a smile, and tries to summon up some of the verve of her favorite fictional protagonists to animate her Mindspeech. :Well, for what it's worth, now that I'm here, I'll fix up this world I've found myself in. Any dath ilani would. Uh, you don't need to answer that.:
It's way too embarrassing now that she's actually gone and thought that out loud. How do fictional protagonists pull off lines like that? Right, because the author rules by fiat that nobody ever laughs at them.