- okay. Carissa's project authority absolutely does not extend to giving the Queen of Cheliax orders but -

- no! You're bad at understanding where Keltham understands selection to be operating, it's over entire universes. More urgently, the thing to say here is 'I suppose I appreciate you presenting so clear a test of whether your theory is true. I....hope very much that it isn't, but if the Queen of Cheliax ends up inevitably in conflict with you then we'll prepare you for the betrayal of a Kuthite spy; I don't need to understand the patterns to acknowledge that if they're making good predictions they'll keep doing that.'

And then once my Ring of Sustenance is working you can have me every night as long as Keltham doesn't end up concluding he was directed to this universe because it'd be the one out of an infinite number where he has the most fascinating sex.

- okay. Carissa's project authority absolutely does not extend to giving the Queen of Cheliax orders but -

- no! You're bad at understanding where Keltham understands selection to be operating, it's over entire universes. More urgently, the thing to say here is 'I suppose I appreciate you presenting so clear a test of whether your theory is true. I....hope very much that it isn't, but if the Queen of Cheliax ends up inevitably in conflict with you then we'll prepare you for the betrayal of a Kuthite spy; I don't need to understand the patterns to acknowledge that if they're making good predictions they might keep doing that.'

And then once my Ring of Sustenance is working you can have me every night as long as Keltham doesn't end up concluding he was directed to this universe because it'd be the one out of an infinite number where he has the most fascinating sex.