His hand comes down on the desk with a sharp bang. "I'm going to stop you right there before you say something insubordinate. You've been tortured, you're going to be much more severely tortured, and I don't think you need any more torture in between, hmm?"
"Sevar, you've got some kind of more-Lawful Lawful Evil vision that, I'm not saying is wrong, but whatever it is, it's as far beyond what we can do here as dath ilani Law compared to what we actually use. If people didn't end up in the long run doing better service to Asmodeus from being threatened with punishment and actually punished, He'd tell us to stop doing it. The short run is another matter. You're apparently doing fine a few hours later, well, good for fucking you. Expecting to be fine one minute afterwards is fucking stupid even so, unless you're Pilar Pineda and can rise up from being tortured with a song of gratitude on your lips. Maybe someday we'll do dath ilan's thing and shape everybody's heritage into being her, but meanwhile you're not. Don't plan on doing anything else useful the day the Queen gets around to you, and maybe not the day afterwards either."
"And you don't comment on how well you think I'm doing. You see me making an actual mistake, you point it out, that's it."