Antonio is now on relay from the (rather fascinated) wizard and has been told that Merrin has Intelligence 16, Wisdom 20, Splendour 14, and thinks of herself as too stupid for most jobs in her society.

...that would be an easier vulnerability to exploit if he wasn't trying to run it against somebody with native 20 fucking Wisdom and, he's being told, inhumanly trained thought patterns.

She's apparently a Lawful Good healer type, so probably at some point they're going to discard diplomacy and break her to compliance.  But that decision does need to wait on being pretty sure that there is not the vengeance of a nearly unimaginable society following close upon her heels.

"I think that where you are from, in general, is much more important than the details of exactly what just happened to you," he says.  "- unless there's some relevance there I'm not seeing."

Antonio is now on relay from the (rather fascinated) wizard and has been told that Merrin has Intelligence 16, Wisdom 20, Splendour 14, and thinks of herself as too stupid for most jobs in her society.

...that would be an easier vulnerability to exploit if he wasn't trying to run it against somebody with native 20 fucking Wisdom and, he's being told, highly trained thoughts that move in not-really-human patterns.

She's apparently a Lawful Good healer type, so probably at some point they're going to discard diplomacy and break her to compliance.  But that decision does need to wait on being pretty sure that there is not the vengeance of a nearly unimaginable society following close upon her heels.

"I think that where you are from, in general, is much more important than the details of exactly what just happened to you," he says.  "- unless there's some relevance there I'm not seeing."