Also in other business, Rugatonn's quickly scrawled commentary on Asmodia's analysis of tropes has now arrived with the return-Teleported evening mail. Rugatonn notes that this general scenario seems to her to imply that it would be possible to bargain with the tropes by trying to bring about events that they would favor, but Asmodia is correct that this should be left to the Most High, who in turn is probably going to leave it up to Asmodeus, who is a lot better placed to do this sort of thing than Rugatonn.
Rugatonn is pleased that Asmodia stopped when she could go no further, instead of making up a wrong answer; that she tried to simplify her thoughts sometimes, and not just complicate them; that she knew when it was time to leave a remaining decision to the Most High, but reasoned as far as she could herself before deciding so.
(Aspexia is starting to feel a strange feeling of hope that Asmodia is real.)