"I do think it'll be important progress for him to understand that we're not, uh, LARPing, in his terms, and that I don't even wish we were. I am not sure who he'd trust to hear it from - maybe Ione, if she recovers, maybe Pilar - I do predict that most possible ways of saying to him 'you know, you can actually not-for-pretend do whatever you want' result in a freakout like the one he had over the idea that you get executed for trying to overthrow the government, but there might be something -
- if I were trying to broach it to him, which has the disadvantage that I'm not going to say I'll get bored if he doesn't keep up, what I'd say is that I disliked it in the sex shop how it seemed like it was set up for mostly people who wanted to - pretend - and that if I wanted that I'd have said to him 'act like you can do whatever you'd like to me, until I tell you to stop', or something, and I didn't, and that a consequence of what I said instead, as far as Cheliax is concerned, is that he is, actually, entitled to do whatever he'd like, and if he wanted to chain me up again and I was being difficult about it he could call in Security and no one'd blink at that, and even though I expect he's nowhere near the point where he'd enjoy my being defiant I like knowing it's real.
But that of course - even in Taldor it wouldn't matter at all what I had to say about it and we do have to introduce that at some point, as I understand it?"