The Queen reads it much more carefully.

Standard language.  What the language says is 'fuck you, stop messing with Asmodeus's pet outsider unless the Church says so'.  She can't even send him to fake etiquette lessons.  But the legal language in which is written is very standard for Hell.

But that's pretty much what Abrogail wants, at this point; and you know what, the etiquette thing would maybe not have actually been a good idea, maybe dath ilan also has an idea that there is more than one kind of flirting.

She signs it.

There.

No more fucking 'tropes'.

The Queen reads it much more carefully.

Standard language.  What the language says is 'fuck you, stop messing with Asmodeus's pet outsider unless the Church says you can'.  She can't even send him to fake etiquette lessons.  But the legal language in which that 'fuck you' is written is very standard, for Hell.

But that's pretty much what Abrogail wants, at this point; and you know what, the etiquette thing would maybe not have actually been a good idea, maybe dath ilan also has an idea that there is more than one kind of flirting.

She signs it.

There.

No more fucking 'tropes'.

The Queen reads it much more carefully.

Very standard language; it wouldn't do to include anything hard for Abrogail to check, that she'd have to stop to conside, and give away that such compacts are dangerous.

What the very standard language says is 'fuck you, stop messing with Asmodeus's pet outsider unless the Church says you can'.  She can't even send him to fake etiquette lessons.  That said the legal language in which that 'fuck you' is written is very standard, for Hell.

But that's pretty much what Abrogail wants, at this point; and you know what, the etiquette thing would maybe not have actually been a good idea, maybe dath ilan also has an idea that there is more than one kind of flirting.

She signs it.

There.

No more fucking 'tropes'.

The Queen reads it much more carefully.

Very standard language; it wouldn't do to include anything hard for Abrogail to check, that she'd have to stop to consider, and give away that such compacts are dangerous in front of Keltham.

What the very standard language says is 'fuck you, stop messing with Asmodeus's pet outsider unless the Church says you can'.  She can't even send him to fake etiquette lessons.  That said the legal language in which that 'fuck you' is written is very standard, for Hell.

But that's pretty much what Abrogail wants, at this point; and you know what, the etiquette thing would maybe not have actually been a good idea, maybe dath ilan also has an idea that there is more than one kind of flirting.

She signs it.

There.

No more fucking 'tropes'.