"We probably shouldn't go into it. The idea is that the Ordinary dath ilani kids are playing an adversarial game against their alternate Conspiracy selves, and the predictable decisions they arrive at inside this branch of reality make the lives of the Conspiracy kids more difficult, because the me inside the Conspiracy knows how Ordinary kids should obviously act, by trying things that would be hard for the Conspiracy to imitate or navigate."
"There's games of correlated decisions played out across real and unreal realities, and in those games it's not only the real Keltham who's standing here that I have to consider."
"To be clear, I get that in a world with a generally unLawful appearance, in the branch of reality where that appearance is real, the locals legit aren't going to intuit right away how that game gets played."