He hugs her hard.

"I really appreciate the thing with Yaisa.  I mean, what I should've done, was think of that check myself, given alleged commonness, and asked Subirachs myself, and picked somebody at random from among those who seemed attracted to me, and run some other checks I won't speak out loud - but - if I don't think of that myself, fast enough, you shouldn't suffer for that."

"And it's important not to lose track of - just optimizing the world the way it appears to be, because very often, reality is what appears to be reality.  Or to paraphrase a famous fictional story character out of dath ilan:  While appearances can be deceiving, they usually aren't."

He hugs her hard.

"I really appreciate the thing with Yaisa.  I mean, what I should've done, was think of that check myself, given alleged commonness, and asked Subirachs myself, and picked somebody at random from among those who seemed attracted to me, and run some other checks I won't speak out loud - but - if I don't think of that myself, fast enough, you shouldn't suffer for that."

"And it's important not to lose track of - just optimizing the world the way it appears to be, whatever else you're thinking and whatever else is going on.  Because very often, reality is what appears to be reality.  Or to paraphrase a famous fictional story character out of dath ilan:  While appearances can be deceiving, they usually aren't."

He hugs her hard.

"I really appreciate the thing with Yaisa.  I mean, what I should've done, was think of that check myself, given alleged commonness, and asked Subirachs myself, and picked somebody at random from among those who seemed attracted to me, and run some other checks I won't speak out loud - but - if I don't think of that myself, fast enough, you shouldn't suffer for that."

"And it's important not to lose track of - just optimizing the world the way it appears to be, whatever else you're thinking and whatever complications are going on.  Because very often, reality is what appears to be reality.  Or to paraphrase a famous fictional story character out of dath ilan:  While appearances can be deceiving, they usually aren't."

He hugs her hard.

"I really appreciate the thing with Yaisa.  I mean, what I should've done, was think of that check myself, given alleged commonness, and asked Subirachs myself, and picked somebody at random from among those who seemed attracted to me, and run some other checks I won't speak out loud - but - if I don't think of that myself, fast enough, you shouldn't suffer for that."

"And it's important not to lose track of - just optimizing the world the way it appears to be, whatever else you're thinking and whatever complications are going on.  Because very often, reality is what appears to be reality.  Or to paraphrase a famous fictional story character out of dath ilan:  While appearances can be deceiving, they usually aren't."

Now he just needs to remember that part and hold to that thought while hurting Carissa, who appears to be a masochist.