“As I see it,” Carissa tells her assembled project girls, “the success or failure of every day is measured in the following terms: how many things, even tiny things, did Keltham learn that aren’t true of Taldor, and how much did Keltham discover in himself that Axis can’t offer him. We lose if he ever learns something he isn’t ready to accept. High Priestess Subirachs is here to try to make you valuable enough that Keltham will change his own rules to have you; I’m here to try to keep you from saying things that separate Cheliax from Taldor.

A question you might be considering: what, then, is the role of our lessons? The answer is that only an Evil dath ilani is competent to lie to a Good dath ilani, and so we will have to become them, and that Keltham isn’t going to want girls who can’t keep up with him, so the girls valuable to the project are the ones who can.

You may go to breakfast; the High Priestess will take you aside when she has time for you.”

“As I see it,” Carissa tells her assembled project girls, “the success or failure of every day is measured in the following terms: how many things, even tiny things, did Keltham learn that aren’t true of Taldor, and how much did Keltham discover in himself that Axis can’t offer him. We lose if he ever learns something he isn’t ready to accept. High Priestess Subirachs is here to try to make you valuable enough that Keltham will change his own rules to have you; I’m here to try to keep you from saying things that separate Cheliax from Taldor.

A question you might be considering: what, then, is the role of our lessons? The answer is that only an Evil dath ilani is competent to lie to a Good dath ilani, and so we will have to become them, and that Keltham isn’t going to want girls who can’t keep up with him, so the girls valuable to the project are the ones who can.

I’m going to do the draw now, for who gets punished normally, so the effects of punishment don’t get mixed up with the effects of believing your superiors are out to get you, or anything like that. Mind, even if you’re selected, you aren’t being unduly punished, you just aren’t being experimentally neglected. Here are slips of paper with all your names. She demonstrated them, mixes them, picks one. “Tonia. Congratulations, Tonia, you’re in good company. I spent yesterday with the Queen and I leveled from it.

You may go to breakfast; the High Priestess will take you aside when she has time for you.”

“As I see it,” Carissa tells her assembled project girls, “the success or failure of every day is measured in the following terms: how many things, even tiny things, did Keltham learn that aren’t true of Taldor, and how much did Keltham discover in himself that Axis can’t offer him. We lose if he ever learns something he isn’t ready to accept. High Priestess Subirachs is here to try to make you valuable enough that Keltham will change his own rules to have you; I’m here to try to keep you from saying things that separate Cheliax from Taldor.

A question you might be considering: what, then, is the role of our lessons? The answer is that only an Evil dath ilani is competent to lie to a Good dath ilani, and so we will have to become them, and that Keltham isn’t going to want girls who can’t keep up with him, so the girls valuable to the project are the ones who can. All of us would have been taking off this project by now, if learning how to think wasn’t totally essential to it, or if it was possible to learn how to think like a dath ilani with anything less than a full time effort. A dath ilani is very nearly priceless to Cheliax. You have the chance to become one. You should be utterly ruthless about arranging to succeed at your lessons; if you think of something that might help, request it. If you think of something that’s getting in the way, we will check if we can be rid of it.

The punishment order I laid out earlier is obviously heretical. It probably won’t work. It has been authorized anyway because it is that important for all of you to master this art: a thousand important things might be set aside, if that makes you faster at learning to think. 

I’m going to do the draw now, for who gets punished normally, so the effects of punishment don’t get mixed up with the effects of believing your superiors are out to get you, or anything like that. Mind, even if you’re selected, you aren’t being unduly punished, you just aren’t being experimentally neglected. Here are slips of paper with all your names. She demonstrated them, mixes them, picks one. “Tonia. Congratulations, Tonia, you’re in good company. I spent yesterday with the Queen and I leveled from it.

You may go to breakfast; the High Priestess will take you aside when she has time for you.”

“As I see it,” Carissa tells her assembled project girls, “the success or failure of every day is measured in the following terms: how many things, even tiny things, did Keltham learn that aren’t true of Taldor, and how much did Keltham discover in himself that Axis can’t offer him. We lose if he ever learns something he isn’t ready to accept. High Priestess Subirachs is here to try to make you valuable enough that Keltham will change his own rules to have you; I’m here to try to keep you from saying things that separate Cheliax from Taldor.

A question you might be considering: what, then, is the role of our lessons? The answer is that only an Evil dath ilani is competent to lie to a Good dath ilani, and so we will have to become them, and that Keltham isn’t going to want girls who can’t keep up with him, so the girls valuable to the project are the ones who can. All of us would have been taking off this project by now, if learning how to think wasn’t totally essential to it, or if it was possible to learn how to think like a dath ilani with anything less than a full time effort. A dath ilani is very nearly priceless to Cheliax. You have the chance to become one. You should be utterly ruthless about arranging to succeed at your lessons; if you think of something that might help, request it. If you think of something that’s getting in the way, we will check if we can be rid of it.

The punishment order I laid out earlier is obviously heretical. It probably won’t work. It has been authorized anyway because it is that important for all of you to master this art: a thousand important things might be set aside, if that makes you faster at learning to think. 

I’m going to do the draw now, for who gets punished normally, so the effects of punishment don’t get mixed up with the effects of believing your superiors are out to get you, or anything like that. Mind, even if you’re selected, you aren’t being unduly punished, you just aren’t being experimentally neglected. Here are slips of paper with all your names."

She demonstrates them, mixes them.

“As I see it,” Carissa tells her assembled project girls, “the success or failure of every day is measured in the following terms: how many things, even tiny things, did Keltham learn that aren’t true of Taldor, and how much did Keltham discover in himself that Axis can’t offer him. We lose if he ever learns something he isn’t ready to accept. High Priestess Subirachs is here to try to make you valuable enough that Keltham will change his own rules to have you; I’m here to try to keep you from saying things that separate Cheliax from Taldor.

A question you might be considering: what, then, is the role of our lessons? The answer is that only an Evil dath ilani is competent to lie to a Good dath ilani, and so we will have to become them, and that Keltham isn’t going to want girls who can’t keep up with him, so the girls valuable to the project are the ones who can. All of us would have been taken off this project by now, if learning how to think wasn’t totally essential to it, or if it was possible to learn how to think like a dath ilani with anything less than a full time effort. A dath ilani is very nearly priceless to Cheliax. You have the chance to become one. You should be utterly ruthless about arranging to succeed at your lessons; if you think of something that might help, request it. If you think of something that’s getting in the way, we will check if we can be rid of it.

The punishment order I laid out earlier is obviously heretical. It probably won’t work. It has been authorized anyway because it is that important for all of you to master this art: a thousand important things might be set aside, if that makes you faster at learning to think. 

I’m going to do the draw now, for who gets punished normally, so the effects of punishment don’t get mixed up with the effects of believing your superiors are out to get you, or anything like that. Mind, even if you’re selected, you aren’t being unduly punished, you just aren’t being experimentally neglected. Here are slips of paper with all your names."

She demonstrates them, mixes them.