"Mine, no.  An Atonement flatly wouldn't work on me, and I would not actually take eternity as a statue over Hell.  I do not, in fact, have better options."

"All of the girls except Pilar, yes.  They're not Inner Ring at all, weren't being tracked for it at second-circle, even after they sold their souls I was thinking of that more as an anti-oracle measure and a way of keeping them in line, and I admit my failure in not realizing earlier that this reflected an inexorably developing problem."

"Mine, no.  An Atonement flatly wouldn't work on me, and I would not actually take eternity as a statue over Hell.  I do not, in fact, have better options."

"All of the girls except Pilar, yes.  They're not Inner Ring at all, weren't being tracked for it at second-circle, even after they sold their souls I was thinking of that more as an anti-oracle measure and a way of keeping them in line, and I admit my failure in not realizing earlier that this would create an inexorably developing problem as the project was redirected towards mastering dath ilanism."

"Mine, no.  An Atonement flatly wouldn't work on me, and I would not actually take eternity as a statue over Hell.  I do not, in fact, have better options."

"All of the girls except Pilar, yes.  They're not Inner Ring at all, weren't being tracked for it at second-circle, even after they sold their souls I was thinking of that more as an anti-oracle measure and a way of keeping them in line, and I admit my failure in not realizing earlier that this would create an inexorably developing problem as the project was redirected towards mastering dath ilanism."

...it actually is easier to say, and think, if he mostly doesn't expect to be punished for it.

"Mine, no.  An Atonement flatly wouldn't work on me, and I would not actually take eternity as a statue over Hell.  I do not, in fact, have better options."

"All of the girls except Pilar, yes.  They're not Inner Ring at all, weren't being tracked for it at second-circle, even after they sold their souls I was thinking of that more as an anti-oracle measure and a way of keeping them in line, and I admit my failure in not realizing earlier that this would create an inexorably developing problem as the project was redirected towards mastering dath ilanism."

...it actually is easier to say, and think, if he mostly doesn't expect to be punished significantly for that failure.  Well.  In the short term.