"I am frankly, not totally happy with things having gone the way they did.  I suspect I'll estimate later that there are processes I could've set in motion a few days earlier if you'd made the time for conversation, as would in fact have been safe.  But, you didn't know, so fine."

"So.  Basic questions.  Who's your own manager and what's their role in Chelish Governance, what's the further line of reporting to the Queen or the Grand High Priestess or whichever of the two is slightly more in charge, what's this project's budget and what's the, series of concentric enclosing budgets above that up to Governance's budget.  For that matter, what is Governance's budget?"

"I am frankly, not totally happy with things having gone the way they did.  I suspect I'll estimate later that there are processes I could've set in motion a few days earlier if you'd risked a conversation, as would in fact have been safe.  But, you didn't know, so fine."

"So.  Basic questions.  Who's your own manager and what's their role in Chelish Governance, what's the further line of reporting to the Queen or the Grand High Priestess or whichever of the two is slightly more in charge, what's this project's budget and what's the, series of concentric enclosing budgets above that up to Governance's budget.  For that matter, what is Governance's budget?"

"I am frankly, not totally happy with things having gone the way they did.  I suspect I'll estimate later that there are processes I could've set in motion a few days earlier if you'd risked a conversation, as would in fact have been safe.  But, you didn't know, so fine."

"So.  Basic questions.  Who's your own manager and what's their role in Chelish Governance, what's the further line of reporting to the Queen or the Grand High Priestess or whichever of the two is slightly more in charge, what's this project's budget and what's the, series of concentric enclosing budgets above that up to Governance's budget."

"For that matter, what is Governance's budget?"