"Me neither!  Because obviously if something like that existed you'd erase it from all the books and not tell anybody about it!"

Ione stalks off herself.  The Queen of Cheliax is among the things she does, in fact, still find scary, because no matter how much sense it wouldn't make for anyone to torture you to death, maybe the Queen does anyways.  Knowing that being scared of the Queen makes that more likely doesn't exactly help.

Nethys has predicted all of this.  Nethys probably doesn't care, very much, but for the Queen to torture Ione to death wouldn't serve Nethys's purposes in any way.  If Ione sees how that would cause a very large and interesting explosion, maybe then she'll start to worry.

...does she fall apart if she actually knows the Law that forbids her from convincing herself of anything?  Well, now she has something else to worry about.  Yay.

"Me neither!  Because obviously if something like that existed you'd erase it from all the books and not tell anybody about it!"

Ione stalks off herself.  The Queen of Cheliax is among the things she does, in fact, still find scary, because no matter how much sense it wouldn't make for anyone to torture you to death, maybe the Queen does anyways.  Knowing that being scared of the Queen makes that more likely doesn't exactly help.

Nethys has predicted all of this.  Nethys probably doesn't care, very much, but for the Queen to torture Ione to death wouldn't serve Nethys's purposes in any way.  If Ione sees how that would cause a very large and interesting explosion, maybe then she'll start to worry.  She just has to hold to that thought.

...does she fall apart if she actually knows the Law that forbids her from convincing herself of anything?  Well, now she has something else to worry about.  Yay.

"Me neither!  Because obviously if something like that existed you'd erase it from all the books and not tell anybody about it!"

Ione stalks off herself.  The Queen of Cheliax is among the things she does, in fact, still find scary, because no matter how much sense it wouldn't make for anyone to torture you to death, maybe the Queen does so regardless.  Knowing that being scared of the Queen makes that more likely doesn't exactly help.

Nethys has predicted all of this.  Nethys probably doesn't care, very much, but for the Queen to torture Ione to death wouldn't serve Nethys's purposes in obvious way.  If Ione sees how that would cause a very large and interesting explosion, maybe then she'll start to worry.  She just has to hold to that thought.

...does she fall apart if she actually knows the Law that forbids her from convincing herself of anything?  Well, now she has something else to worry about.  Yay.

"Me neither!  Because obviously if something like that existed you'd erase it from all the books and not tell anybody about it!"

Ione stalks off herself.  The Queen of Cheliax is among the things she does, in fact, still find scary, because no matter how much sense it wouldn't make for anyone to torture her to death, maybe the Queen does so regardless.  Knowing that being scared of the Queen makes that more likely doesn't exactly help.

Nethys has predicted all of this.  Nethys probably doesn't care, very much, but for the Queen to torture Ione to death wouldn't serve Nethys's purposes in an obvious way.  If Ione sees how that would cause a very large and interesting explosion, maybe then she'll start to worry.  She just has to hold to that thought.

...does she fall apart if she actually knows the Law that forbids her from convincing herself of anything?  Well, now she has something else to worry about.  Yay.