'Our Lord is at war with Zon-Kuthon' would be harder to understand as a statement with import clearly distinct from 'Cheliax is at war with Nidal', if there were not a window inside the room Maillol now occupies, from which you can see a bit of the darkest-of-night sky, flickering, in a way that (if history is true) it hasn't done in the hundred years since Aroden died.

Maillol wants to believe that this is literally the worst that a project disaster can possibly, possibly get.

He is afraid that it is not.

"Have we considered the possibility that this project is, in fact, cursed directly by Pharasma Herself with all of Her malice, and should be shut down entirely before we find out what happens to it tomorrow," says Maillol.

...he doesn't actually.  But he thinks it very, very loudly.

What he says instead is, "I need explicit confirmation that Aspexia Rugatonn knows that Carissa Sevar is sharing a building with the Queen."

'Our Lord is at war with Zon-Kuthon' would be harder to understand as a statement with import clearly distinct from 'Cheliax is at war with Nidal', if there were not a window inside the room Maillol now occupies, from which you can see a bit of the darkest-of-night sky, flickering, in a way that (if history is true) it hasn't done in the hundred years since Aroden died and tore open the Worldwound.

Maillol wants to believe that this is literally the worst that a project disaster can possibly, possibly get.

He is afraid that it is not.

"Have we considered the possibility that this project is, in fact, cursed directly by Pharasma Herself with all of Her malice, and should be shut down entirely before we find out what happens to it tomorrow," says Maillol.

...he doesn't actually.  But he thinks it very, very loudly.

What he says instead is, "I need explicit confirmation that Aspexia Rugatonn knows that Carissa Sevar is sharing a building with the Queen."

'Our Lord is at war with Zon-Kuthon' would be harder to understand as a statement with import clearly distinct from 'Cheliax is at war with Nidal', if there were not a window inside the room Maillol now occupies, from which you can see a bit of the darkest-of-night sky, flickering, in a way that (if history is true) it hasn't done in the hundred years since Aroden died and the Worldwound opened.

Maillol wants to believe that this is literally the worst that a project disaster can possibly, possibly get.

He is afraid that it is not.

"Have we considered the possibility that this project is, in fact, cursed directly by Pharasma Herself with all of Her malice, and should be shut down entirely before we find out what happens to it tomorrow," says Maillol.

...he doesn't actually.  But he thinks it very, very loudly.

What he says instead is, "I need explicit confirmation that Aspexia Rugatonn knows that Carissa Sevar is sharing a building with the Queen."

'Our Lord is at war with Zon-Kuthon' would be harder to understand as a statement with import clearly distinct from 'Cheliax is at war with Nidal', if there were not a window inside the room Maillol now occupies, from which you can see a bit of the darkest-of-night sky, flickering, in a way that (if history is true) it hasn't done in the hundred years since Aroden died and the Worldwound opened.

Maillol wants to believe that this is literally the worst that a project disaster can possibly, possibly get.

He is afraid that it is not.

"Have we considered the possibility that this project is, in fact, cursed directly by Pharasma Herself with all of Her malice, and should be shut down entirely before we find out what happens to it tomorrow," says Maillol.

...he doesn't actually.  But he thinks it very loudly.

What he says instead is, "I need explicit confirmation that Aspexia Rugatonn knows that Carissa Sevar is sharing a building with the Queen."