"Yeah, I have no idea how the rules on Civilization's actual secret projects work, is the thing. I know various suggestions for conduct and rules on secret projects that commonly appear in fiction, which, one would assume, are optimized to sound totally reasonable to readers while also allowing for convenient drama to happen anyways, and I have been trying not to let any of those enter my mind."
"I'm also not sure I should just do things the Chelish way, what with, for example, it not being obvious to people from Cheliax that whether Yaisa and I end up fucking is something that should not be mentioned in employee retention conversations."
"What's the logic behind the notion that somebody in my position, in general, should have an expectation that Asmodia not do this thing that was legal for her to do, and hold himself injured by her having done it?"