You are not fucking helping me make this decision, little boy.
"I think that sane people occasionally take time off from running their country to sleep with people they are actually attracted to," Isidre says.
Intuitions only partly magical tell Abrogail that Isidre needs to make this statement incredibly blatantly sharp for a Chelish person, so that it will come across as slightly sharp to Keltham. Abrogail sends a side note to Sevar about how this sharpness is deliberate and Sevar may need to note for her own future that Keltham may need very loud signals for them to be perceptible to him at all, that's going to take some practice to calibrate right.
Are Sevar's thoughts by any chance flirtatious right now, in the sense that Sevar is thinking things she knows will get her punished.