All right.  Abrogail thinks she is going to have to proceed under the assumption that the 'tropes' are real, and govern here.

Her reasoning is not complicated; why, Sevar herself might see it if Sevar had the requisite +6 headband of all mental attributes.

Keltham thinks he's describing a future event that he has to arrange in accordance with 'tropes'.  That event has already happened, without Keltham knowing it.  He has been fighting the true Queen this entire time, in front of Carissa, and, apparently to Carissa for now, won.

In dath ilan's rhythm of prediction, credit, credibility, that is a contest he was won, without knowing it.

Abrogail has worked out by now a wordless sort of apprehension as to what sort of things 'tropes' are, namely, things out of stories, except that they're not the 'tropes' of Cheliax or Golarion, they're the 'tropes' of dath ilan.  But if dath ilan has, per transcript, girls who dream of becoming Dark Unilateral Rulers, then dath ilan almost certainly also has a 'trope' for appearing to have won when you haven't, because the person you're fighting is smarter than you and you never knew how many of your plans were known to her from the beginning.

More the fool Keltham, if that thought hasn't occurred to him; and more the fool Carissa, if, knowing the true place of the Queen of Cheliax in all of this, it hasn't occurred to her to wonder the same.

...or she could just not decide to do any of that, and then her life wouldn't be a 'trope'.

Ice and fire alternate, in an unoccupied room next door, to prevent the floors and walls from actually melting.

All right.  Abrogail thinks she is going to have to proceed under the assumption that the 'tropes' are real, and govern here.

Her reasoning is not complicated; why, Sevar herself might see it if Sevar had the requisite +6 headband of all mental attributes.

Keltham thinks he's describing a future event that he has to arrange in accordance with 'tropes'.  That event has already happened, without Keltham knowing it.  He has been fighting the true Queen this entire time, in front of Carissa, and, apparently to Carissa for now, won.

In dath ilan's rhythm of prediction, success, credibility, that is a victory he has won and without knowing it.

Abrogail has worked out by now a wordless sort of apprehension as to what sort of things 'tropes' are, namely, things out of stories, except that they're not the 'tropes' of Cheliax or Golarion, they're the 'tropes' of dath ilan.  But if dath ilan has, per transcript, girls who dream of becoming Dark Unilateral Rulers, then dath ilan almost certainly also has a 'trope' for appearing to have won when you haven't, because the person you're fighting is smarter than you and you never knew how many of your plans were known to her from the beginning.

More the fool Keltham, if that thought hasn't occurred to him; and more the fool Carissa, if, knowing the true place of the Queen of Cheliax in all of this, it hasn't occurred to her to wonder the same.

...or she could just not decide to do any of that, and then her life wouldn't be a 'trope'.

Ice and fire alternate, in an unoccupied room next door, to prevent the floors and walls from actually melting.

All right.  Abrogail thinks she is going to have to proceed under the assumption that the 'tropes' are real, and govern here.

Her reasoning is not complicated; why, Sevar herself might see it if Sevar had the requisite +6 headband of all mental attributes.

Keltham thinks he's describing a future event that he has to arrange in accordance with 'tropes'.  That event has already happened, without Keltham knowing it.  He has been fighting the true Queen this entire time, in front of Carissa, and, apparently to Carissa for now, won.

In dath ilan's rhythm of prediction, success, credibility, that is a victory he has won and without knowing it.

Abrogail has worked out by now a wordless sort of apprehension as to what sort of things 'tropes' are, namely, things out of stories, except that they're not the 'tropes' of Cheliax or Golarion, they're the 'tropes' of dath ilan.  But if dath ilan has, per transcript, girls who dream of becoming Dark Unilateral Rulers, then dath ilan almost certainly also has a 'trope' for appearing to have won when you haven't, because the person you're fighting is smarter than you and you never knew how many of your plans were known to her from the beginning.

More the fool Keltham, if that thought hasn't occurred to him; and more the fool Carissa, if, knowing the true place of the Queen of Cheliax in all of this, it hasn't occurred to her to wonder the same.

...or she could just not decide to do any of that, and then her life wouldn't be a 'trope'.

Ice and fire alternate, in an unoccupied room nearby, to prevent the floors and walls from actually melting.

All right.  Abrogail thinks she is going to have to proceed under the assumption that the 'tropes' are real, and govern here.

Her reasoning is not complicated; why, Sevar herself might see it if Sevar had the requisite +6 headband of all mental attributes.

Keltham thinks he's describing a future event that he has to arrange in accordance with 'tropes'.  That event has already happened, without Keltham knowing it.  He has been fighting the true Queen this entire time, in front of Carissa, and, apparently to Carissa for now, won.

In dath ilan's rhythm of prediction, success, credibility, that is a victory he has won and without knowing it.

Abrogail has worked out by now a wordless sort of apprehension as to what sort of things 'tropes' are, namely, things out of stories, except that they're not the 'tropes' of Cheliax or Golarion, they're the 'tropes' of dath ilan.  But if dath ilan has, per transcript, girls who dream of becoming Dark Unilateral Rulers, then dath ilan almost certainly also has a 'trope' for appearing to have won when you haven't, because the person you're fighting is smarter than you and you never knew how many of your plans were known to her from the beginning.

More the fool Keltham, if that thought hasn't occurred to him; and more the fool Carissa, if, knowing the true place of the Queen of Cheliax in all of this, it hasn't occurred to her to wonder the same.

...or she could just not decide to do any of that, and then her life wouldn't be a 'trope'.

Possibly none of it would ever have been a 'trope', she's not sure how that works.

Ice and fire alternate, in an unoccupied room nearby, to prevent the floors and walls from actually melting.

All right.  Abrogail thinks she is going to have to proceed under the assumption that the 'tropes' are real, and govern here.

Her reasoning is not complicated; why, Sevar herself might see it if Sevar had the requisite +6 headband of all mental attributes.

Keltham thinks he's describing a future event that he has to arrange in accordance with 'tropes'.  That event has already happened, without Keltham knowing it.  He has been fighting the true Queen this entire time, in front of Carissa, and, apparently to Carissa for now, won.

In dath ilan's rhythm of prediction, success, credibility, that is a victory he has won and without knowing it.

Abrogail has worked out by now a wordless sort of apprehension as to what sort of things 'tropes' are, namely, things out of stories, except that they're not the 'tropes' of Cheliax or Golarion, they're the 'tropes' of dath ilan.  But if dath ilan has, per transcript, girls who dream of becoming Dark Unilateral Rulers, then dath ilan almost certainly also has a 'trope' for appearing to have won when you haven't, because the person you're fighting is smarter than you and you never knew how many of your plans were known to her from the beginning.

More the fool Keltham, if that thought hasn't occurred to him; and more the fool Carissa, if, knowing the true place of the Queen of Cheliax in all of this, it hasn't occurred to her to wonder the same.

...or she could just not decide to do any of that, and then her life wouldn't be a 'trope'.

Possibly none of it would ever have been a 'trope', she's not sure how that works.

Ice and fire alternate, in an unoccupied room nearby, to prevent the floors and walls from actually melting.

All right.  Abrogail thinks she is going to have to proceed under the assumption that the 'tropes' are real, and govern here.

Her reasoning is not complicated; why, Sevar herself might see it if Sevar had the requisite +6 headband of all mental attributes.

Keltham thinks he's describing a future event that he has to arrange in accordance with 'tropes'.  That event has already happened, without Keltham knowing it.  He has been fighting the true Queen this entire time, in front of Carissa, and, apparently to Carissa for now, won.

In dath ilan's rhythm of prediction, success, credibility, that is a victory he has won and without knowing it.

Abrogail has worked out by now a wordless sort of apprehension as to what sort of things 'tropes' are, namely, things out of stories, except that they're not the 'tropes' of Cheliax or Golarion, they're the 'tropes' of dath ilan.  But if dath ilan has, per transcript, girls who dream of becoming Dark Unilateral Rulers, then dath ilan almost certainly also has a 'trope' for appearing to have won when you haven't, because the person you're fighting is smarter than you and you never knew how many of your plans were known to her from the beginning.

More the fool Keltham, if that thought hasn't occurred to him; and more the fool Carissa, if, knowing the true place of the Queen of Cheliax in all of this, it hasn't occurred to her to wonder the same.

...or she could just not decide to do any of that, and then her life wouldn't be a 'trope'.

Possibly then there wouldn't be any 'tropes' around at all, she's not sure how that works.

Ice and fire alternate, in an unoccupied room nearby, to prevent the floors and walls from actually melting.

All right.  Abrogail thinks she is going to have to proceed under the assumption that the 'tropes' are real, and govern here.

Her reasoning is not complicated; why, Sevar herself might see it if Sevar had the requisite +6 headband of all mental attributes.

Keltham thinks he's describing a future event that he has to arrange in accordance with 'tropes'.  That event has already happened, without Keltham knowing it.  He has been fighting the true Queen this entire time, in front of Carissa, and, apparently to Carissa for now, won.

In dath ilan's rhythm of prediction, success, credibility, that is a victory he has won.

Abrogail has worked out by now a wordless sort of apprehension as to what sort of things 'tropes' are, namely, things out of stories, except that they're not the 'tropes' of Cheliax or Golarion, they're the 'tropes' of dath ilan.  But if dath ilan has, per transcript, girls who dream of becoming Dark Unilateral Rulers, then dath ilan almost certainly also has a 'trope' for appearing to have won when you haven't, because the person you're fighting is smarter than you and you never knew how many of your plans were known to her from the beginning.

More the fool Keltham, if that thought hasn't occurred to him; and more the fool Carissa, if, knowing the true place of the Queen of Cheliax in all of this, it hasn't occurred to her to wonder the same.

...or she could just not decide to do any of that, and then her life wouldn't be a 'trope'.

Possibly then there wouldn't be any 'tropes' around at all, she's not sure how that works.

Ice and fire alternate, in an unoccupied room nearby, to prevent the floors and walls from actually melting.

All right.  Abrogail thinks she is going to have to proceed under the assumption that the 'tropes' are real, and govern here.

Her reasoning is not complicated; why, Sevar herself might see it if Sevar had the requisite +6 headband of all mental attributes.

Keltham thinks he's describing a future event that he has to arrange in accordance with 'tropes'.  That event has already happened, without Keltham knowing it.  He has been fighting the true Queen this entire time, in front of Carissa, and, apparently to Carissa for now, won.

In dath ilan's rhythm of prediction, success, credibility, that is a victory he has won.

Abrogail has worked out by now a wordless sort of apprehension as to what sort of things 'tropes' are, namely, things out of stories, except that they're not the 'tropes' of Cheliax or Golarion, they're the 'tropes' of dath ilan.  But if dath ilan has, per transcript, girls who dream of becoming Dark Unilateral Rulers, then dath ilan almost certainly also has a 'trope' for appearing to have won when you haven't, because the person you're fighting is smarter than you and you never knew how many of your plans were known to her from the beginning.

More the fool Keltham, if that thought hasn't occurred to him; and more the fool Carissa, if, knowing the true place of the Queen of Cheliax in all of this, it hasn't occurred to her to wonder the same.

...or she could just not decide to do any of that, and then her life wouldn't be a 'trope'.

Possibly then there wouldn't be any 'tropes' around at all, she's not sure how that works.

Ice and fire alternate, in an unoccupied room nearby.

(Cycling between the two prevents the floors and walls from melting; it's not Abrogail's first time doing this.)

All right.  Abrogail thinks she is going to have to proceed under the assumption that the 'tropes' are real, and govern here.

Her reasoning is not complicated; why, Sevar herself might see it if Sevar had the requisite +6 headband of all mental attributes.

Keltham thinks he's describing a future event that he has to arrange in accordance with 'tropes'.  That event has already happened, without Keltham knowing it.  He has been fighting the true Queen this entire time, in front of Carissa, and, apparently to Carissa for now, won.

In dath ilan's rhythm of prediction, success, credibility, that is a victory he has won.

Abrogail has worked out by now a wordless sort of apprehension as to what sort of things 'tropes' are, namely, things out of stories, except that they're not the 'tropes' of Cheliax or Golarion, they're the 'tropes' of dath ilan.  But if dath ilan has, per transcript, girls who dream of becoming Dark Unilateral Rulers, then dath ilan almost certainly also has a 'trope' for appearing to have won when you haven't, because the person you're fighting is smarter than you and you never knew how many of your plans were known to her from the beginning.

More the fool Keltham, if that thought hasn't occurred to him; and more the fool Carissa, if, knowing the true place of the Queen of Cheliax in all of this, it hasn't occurred to her to wonder the same.

...or she could just not decide to do any of that, and then her life wouldn't be a 'trope'.

Possibly then there wouldn't be any 'tropes' around at all, she's not sure how that works.

Ice and fire alternate, in an unoccupied room nearby.

(Cycling between the two prevents the floors and walls from melting; it's not Abrogail's first time venting frustration where her adversaries will not see it and be warned.)

All right.  Abrogail thinks she is going to have to proceed under the assumption that the 'tropes' are real, and govern here.

Her reasoning is not complicated; why, Sevar herself might see it if Sevar had the requisite +6 headband of all mental attributes.

Keltham thinks he's describing a future event that he has to arrange in accordance with 'tropes'.  That event has already happened, without Keltham knowing it.  He has been fighting the true Queen this entire time, in front of Carissa, and, apparently to Carissa for now, won.

In dath ilan's rhythm of prediction, success, credibility, that is a victory he has won.

Abrogail has worked out by now a wordless sort of apprehension as to what sort of things 'tropes' are, namely, things out of stories, except that they're not the 'tropes' of Cheliax or Golarion, they're the 'tropes' of dath ilan.  But if dath ilan has, per transcript, girls who dream of becoming Dark Unilateral Rulers, then dath ilan almost certainly also has a 'trope' for appearing to have won when you haven't, because the person you're fighting is smarter than you and you never knew how many of your plans were known to her from the beginning.

More the fool Keltham, if that thought hasn't occurred to him; and more the fool Carissa, if, knowing the true place of the Queen of Cheliax in all of this, it hasn't occurred to her to wonder the same.

...or she could just not decide to do any of that, and then her life wouldn't be a 'trope'.

Possibly then there wouldn't be any 'tropes' around at all, she's not sure how that works.

Ice and fire alternate, in an unoccupied room nearby.  Cycling between the two prevents the floors and walls from melting; it's not Abrogail's first time venting frustration where her adversaries will not see it and be warned.

All right.  Abrogail thinks she is going to have to proceed under the assumption that the 'tropes' are real, and govern here.

Her reasoning is not complicated; why, Sevar herself might see it if Sevar had the requisite +6 headband of all mental attributes.

Keltham thinks he's describing a future event that he has to arrange in accordance with 'tropes'.  That event has already happened, without Keltham knowing it.  He has been fighting the true Queen this entire time, in front of Carissa, and, apparently to Carissa for now, won.

In dath ilan's rhythm of prediction, success, credibility, that is a victory he has won.

Abrogail has worked out by now a wordless sort of apprehension as to what sort of things 'tropes' are, namely, things out of stories, except that they're not the 'tropes' of Cheliax or Golarion, they're the 'tropes' of dath ilan.  But if dath ilan has, per transcript, girls who dream of becoming Dark Unilateral Rulers, then dath ilan almost certainly also has a 'trope' for appearing to have won when you haven't, because the person you're fighting is smarter than you and you never knew how many of your plans were known to her from the beginning.

More the fool Keltham, if that thought hasn't occurred to him; and more the fool Carissa, if, knowing the true place of the Queen of Cheliax in all of this, it hasn't occurred to her to wonder the same.

...or she could just not decide to do any of that, and then her life wouldn't be a 'trope'.

Possibly then there wouldn't be any 'tropes' around at all, she's not sure how that works.

Ice and fire alternate, in an unoccupied room nearby.  Cycling between the two prevents the floors and walls from melting; it's not Abrogail's first time venting emotion where her adversaries will not see that and be warned.

All right.  Abrogail thinks she is going to have to proceed under the assumption that the 'tropes' are real, and govern here.

Her reasoning is not complicated; why, Sevar herself might see it if Sevar had the requisite +6 headband of all mental attributes.

Keltham thinks he's describing a future event that he has to arrange in accordance with 'tropes'.  That event has already happened, without Keltham knowing it.  He has been fighting the true Queen this entire time, in front of Carissa, and, apparently to Carissa for now, won.

In dath ilan's rhythm of prediction, success, credibility, that is a victory he has won.

Abrogail has worked out by now a wordless sort of apprehension as to what sort of things 'tropes' are, namely, things out of stories, except that they're not the 'tropes' of Cheliax or Golarion, they're the 'tropes' of dath ilan.  But if dath ilan has, per transcript, girls who dream of becoming Dark Unilateral Rulers, then dath ilan surely also has a 'trope' for appearing to have won when you haven't, because the person you're fighting is smarter than you and you never knew how many of your plans were known to her from the beginning.

More the fool Keltham, if that thought hasn't occurred to him; and more the fool Carissa, if, knowing the true place of the Queen of Cheliax in all of this, it hasn't occurred to her to wonder the same.

...or she could just not decide to do any of that, and then her life wouldn't be a 'trope'.

Possibly then there wouldn't be any 'tropes' around at all, she's not sure how that works.

Ice and fire alternate, in an unoccupied room nearby.  Cycling between the two prevents the floors and walls from melting; it's not Abrogail's first time venting emotion where her adversaries will not see that and be warned.