A new group of around 20 people, shown on the Silent Image of a large television screen, sitting all over strange chairlike objects and draped over lying-cushions in some kid's enormous well-decorated living room.  To Asmodean eyes, they're dressed more nicely than Legislators and Chief Executives; to dath ilani eyes, these are people who still have somebody left to impress, with a young person's dignity rather than an exalted person's.  One girl is braiding a boy's long hair, all of them have mysterious objects like open metal books nearby them.

"My writing circle.  They liked fiction with a theme of - selfish people, chaotic people, or what passed for that in dath ilan.  Stories about people who die the true death and end up in other worlds and for some perfectly totally reasonable reason they end up needing to run a large criminal organization.  At the time I, left home, I was occasionally cuddling with her," red arrow on Illeia, "and that boy's sister," blue arrow pointing to Corun, "and would have liked to score with her," third arrow pointing to Rantal, who is visibly the prettiest girl in the group, "but she's one of those dreadful types who just smiles when you ask her if she's got an upfront price -"

Keltham loses the image.  He kind of expected to.

A new group of around 20 people, shown on the Silent Image of a large television screen, sitting all over strange chairlike objects and draped over lying-cushions in some kid's enormous well-decorated living room.  To Asmodean eyes, they're dressed more nicely than Legislators and Chief Executives; to dath ilani eyes, these are people who still have somebody left to impress, with a young person's dignity rather than an exalted person's.  One girl is braiding a boy's long hair, all of them have mysterious objects like open metal books nearby them.

"My writing circle.  They liked fiction with a theme of - selfish people, chaotic people, or what passed for that in dath ilan.  Stories about people who end up in other worlds and for some perfectly totally reasonable reason they end up needing to run a large criminal organization.  At the time I, left home, I was occasionally cuddling with her," red arrow on Illeia, "and that boy's sister," blue arrow pointing to Corun, "and would have liked to score with her," third arrow pointing to Rantal, who is visibly the prettiest girl in the group, "but she's one of those dreadful types who just smiles when you ask her if she's got an upfront price -"

Keltham loses the image.  He kind of expected to.

A new group of around 20 people, shown on the Silent Image of a large television screen, sitting all over strange chairlike objects and draped over lying-cushions in some kid's enormous well-decorated living room.  To Asmodean eyes, they're dressed more nicely than Legislators and Chief Executives; to dath ilani eyes, these are people who still have somebody left to impress, with a young person's dignity rather than an exalted person's.  One girl is braiding a boy's long hair, all of them have mysterious objects like open metal books nearby them.

"My writing circle.  They liked fiction with a theme of - selfish people, chaotic people, or what passed for that in dath ilan.  Stories about people who end up in other worlds and for some perfectly totally reasonable reason they end up needing to run a large criminal organization.  At the time I, left home, I was occasionally cuddling with her," red arrow on Illeia, "and that boy's sister," blue arrow pointing to Corun, "and would have liked to score with her," third arrow pointing to Ranthal, who is visibly the prettiest girl in the group, "but she's one of those dreadful types who just smiles when you ask her if she's got an upfront price -"

Keltham loses the image.  He kind of expected to.