"That's a very heroic attempt to avoid and defuse that complication, and I admire your cleverness and creativity there."

"The problem is, if this world isn't governed by patterns, that won't be necessary because the Queen will have one drop of common sense anywhere in her intelligence-boosting super-headband."

"And if this world is governed by the patterns I see, the Queen can't possibly make any decision except pursuing Sevar in a way that brings her into conflict with me, possibly the sort that resolves with her being revealed as having finally betrayed Asmodeus and removed from office, and possibly the sort that resolves with the Queen also added to my harem, but the point is, expecting the Queen to not make things more complicated is like asking for Pilar not to end up in Elysium, which no doubt made things more complicated, or for Ione to not deliver prophetic warnings, or for masochists not to exist, or for me to not land close to Sevar at the Worldwound.  If the Queen could make any other choice but the one that the 'trope' requires her to make, you'd have some different Queen instead."

"That's a very heroic attempt to avoid and defuse that complication, and I admire your cleverness and creativity there."

"The problem is, if this world isn't governed by patterns, that won't be necessary because the Queen will have one drop of common sense anywhere in her intelligence-boosting super-headband."

"And if this world is governed by the patterns I see, the Queen literally can't make any decision except pursuing Sevar in a way that brings her into conflict with me, possibly the sort that resolves with her being revealed as having finally betrayed Asmodeus and removed from office, and possibly the sort that resolves with the Queen also added to my harem, but the point is, expecting the Queen to not make things more complicated is like asking for Pilar not to end up in Elysium, which no doubt made things more complicated, or for Ione to not deliver prophetic warnings, or for masochists not to exist, or for me to not land close to Sevar at the Worldwound.  If the Queen could make any other choice but the one that the 'trope' requires her to make, you'd have some different Queen instead."

"That's a very heroic attempt to avoid and defuse that complication, and I will put some additional questions on hold to admire your cleverness and creativity there."

"The problem is, if this world isn't governed by patterns, that won't be necessary because the Queen will have one drop of common sense anywhere in her intelligence-boosting super-headband."

"And if this world is governed by the patterns I see, the Queen literally can't make any decision except pursuing Sevar in a way that brings her into conflict with me, possibly the sort that resolves with her being revealed as having finally betrayed Asmodeus and removed from office, and possibly the sort that resolves with the Queen also added to my harem, but the point is, expecting the Queen to not make things more complicated is like asking for Pilar not to end up in Elysium, which no doubt made things more complicated, or for Ione to not deliver prophetic warnings, or for masochists not to exist, or for me to not land close to Sevar at the Worldwound.  If the Queen could make any other choice but the one that the 'trope' requires her to make, you'd have some different Queen instead."