"There's a small sad saying among slavers, you can't burn clay to iron whatever the heat.  If Meritxell has no innate nature turned to masochism and submission... one might in a week train her to fool a nonexpert, and of course if her user doesn't really care then simple fakery will oft be enough.  To train Meritxell to where she fools Keltham's unknown arts of sexual perception?  I think, over any reasonable amount of time, that simply requires her to start with a convenient amount of potential."

"Or, I suppose, it requires that we are willing to spend a very large amount of gold on turning her into a book and rewriting her.  But we'll be lucky if Absalom has one such scroll for sale at any price, and never mind two of them."

"It may also be that Meritxell is there or already there, and that I am hardly needed.  Do you wish me to assess Meritxell for current state and quick trainability in what it is that you wish, and then perhaps the others?"

"There's a small sad saying among slavers, you can't burn clay to iron whatever the heat.  If Meritxell has no innate nature turned to masochism and submission... one might in a week train her to fool a nonexpert, and of course if her user doesn't really care then simple fakery will oft be enough.  To train Meritxell to where she fools Keltham's unknown arts of sexual perception?  I think, over any reasonable amount of time, that simply requires her to start with a convenient amount of potential."

"Or, I suppose, it requires that we are willing to spend a very large amount of gold on turning her into a book and rewriting her.  But we'll be lucky if Absalom has one such scroll for sale at any price, and never mind two of them."

"It may also be that Meritxell is there or nearly there, and that I am hardly needed.  Do you wish me to assess Meritxell for current state and quick trainability in what it is that you wish, and then perhaps the others?"