...all right, if Keltham is going to that length to make her feel safe - not that Asmodia actually felt even slightly unsafe, after reading Keltham's thought transcripts, and having like any concept whatsoever of who he is, especially as compared to the rest of Cheliax - not that Asmodia would even significantly complain if Keltham wanted to have sex with her anyways - then Asmodia will take him up on his offer, after some spell-warmed and starlit discussion up on the fortress roof, to try having something warm snuggling her in bed under entirely non-ero circumstances.

Is it true in alterCheliax that alterAsmodia never had anyone hold her, hug her, except in a sexual context, for roughly as long as she can remember, that the only flesh-to-flesh contact she's felt in a very long time has been intended to hurt her at worst and use her at best?  Not, obviously, in the same way as in Cheliax.  But it could be true in alterCheliax that boys wouldn't have a concept of her as an asexual, and wouldn't offer to hold her in bed without sex ever being on offer.  Keltham clearly thinks with a lot of probability that this might be true, based on whatever he already believes about alterCheliax.  It is the safer course not to contradict it.

So alterAsmodia hesitates a bit, and then says she's shy about discussing her history, in that way.  But she is definitely interested in taking up Keltham on that offer to see what happens.

It's... nice.

She catches herself thinking that she might want to sometimes Teleport back to wherever Keltham is, so long as it's nowhere near Cheliax, to have this again, if she hasn't found something equally warm and safe by then.

Does this imply the tropes are real?

Even as Asmodia tries to work out conditional probabilities and likelihood ratios in her head, the thought occurs to her that this is what Keltham's inner mental life must be like all the time.

And Asmodia still hasn't figured out how to Lawfully derive probabilities before evidence and it comes up every time she tries to do this.  She knows that things with added complications have to be less probable than the same things without those added complications, and that, unfortunately, is it.  Her entire algorithm for prior probabilities currently consists of making up numbers that maybe sorta sound right.  She should have tried to figure that out while she had the Most High's crown.

...all right, if Keltham is going to that length to make her feel safe - not that Asmodia actually felt even slightly unsafe, after reading Keltham's thought transcripts, and having like any concept whatsoever of who he is, especially as compared to the rest of Cheliax - not that Asmodia would even significantly complain if Keltham tried to have sex with her - then Asmodia will take him up on his offer, made after some spell-warmed and starlit discussion up on the fortress roof, to try having something warm snuggling her in bed under entirely non-ero circumstances.

Is it true in alterCheliax that alterAsmodia never had anyone hold her, hug her, except in a sexual context, for roughly as long as she can remember, that the only flesh-to-flesh contact she's felt in a very long time has been intended to hurt her at worst and use her at best?  Not, obviously, in the same way as for trueAsmodia in trueCheliax.  But it could be true in alterCheliax that boys wouldn't have a concept of alterAsmodia as an asexual, and wouldn't offer to hold her in bed without thinking that sex might eventually be in the offing.  Keltham clearly thinks with a lot of probability that this might be true of alterAsmodia, based on whatever he already believes about alterCheliax.  It is the safer course not to contradict it.

So alterAsmodia hesitates a bit, and then says she's shy about discussing her history, in that way.  But she is definitely interested in taking up Keltham on that offer to see what happens.

It's... nice.

She catches herself thinking that she might want to sometimes Teleport back to wherever Keltham is, so long as it's nowhere near Cheliax, to have this again, if she hasn't found something equally warm and safe by then.

Does this imply the tropes are real?

Even as Asmodia tries to work out conditional probabilities and likelihood ratios in her head, the thought occurs to her that this is what Keltham's inner mental life must be like all the time.

And Asmodia still hasn't figured out how to Lawfully derive probabilities before evidence and it comes up every time she tries to do this.  She knows that things with added complications have to be less probable than the same things without those added complications, and that, unfortunately, is it.  Her entire algorithm for prior probabilities currently consists of making up numbers that maybe sorta sound right.  She should have tried to figure that out while she had the Most High's crown.

...all right, if Keltham is going to that length to make her feel safe - not that Asmodia would've felt even slightly unsafe, after reading Keltham's thought transcripts, and having like any concept whatsoever of who he is, especially as compared to the rest of Cheliax - not that Asmodia would even significantly complain if Keltham tried to have sex with her - then Asmodia will take him up on his offer, made after some spell-warmed and starlit discussion up on the fortress roof, to try having something warm snuggling her in bed under entirely non-ero circumstances.

Is it true in alterCheliax that alterAsmodia never had anyone hold her, hug her, except in a sexual context, for roughly as long as she can remember, that the only flesh-to-flesh contact she's felt in a very long time has been intended to hurt her at worst and use her at best?  Not, obviously, in the same way as for trueAsmodia in trueCheliax.  But it could be true in alterCheliax that boys wouldn't have a concept of alterAsmodia as an asexual, and wouldn't offer to hold her in bed without thinking that sex might eventually be in the offing.  Keltham clearly thinks with a lot of probability that this might be true of alterAsmodia, based on whatever he already believes about alterCheliax.  It is the safer course not to contradict it.

So alterAsmodia hesitates a bit, and then says she's shy about discussing her history, in that way.  But she is definitely interested in taking up Keltham on that offer to see what happens.

It's... nice.

She catches herself thinking that she might want to sometimes Teleport back to wherever Keltham is, so long as it's nowhere near Cheliax, to have this again, if she hasn't found something equally warm and safe by then.

Does this imply the tropes are real?

Even as Asmodia tries to work out conditional probabilities and likelihood ratios in her head, the thought occurs to her that this is what Keltham's inner mental life must be like all the time.

And Asmodia still hasn't figured out how to Lawfully derive probabilities before evidence and it comes up every time she tries to do this.  She knows that things with added complications have to be less probable than the same things without those added complications, and that, unfortunately, is it.  Her entire algorithm for prior probabilities currently consists of making up numbers that maybe sorta sound right.  She should have tried to figure that out while she had the Most High's crown.

...all right, if Keltham is going to that length to make her feel safe - not that Asmodia would've felt even slightly unsafe, after reading Keltham's thought transcripts, and having like any concept whatsoever of who he is, especially as compared to the rest of Cheliax - not that Asmodia would even significantly complain if Keltham tried to have sex with her - then Asmodia will take him up on his offer, made after some spell-warmed and starlit discussion up on the fortress roof, to try having something warm snuggling her in bed under entirely non-ero circumstances.

Is it true in alterCheliax that alterAsmodia never had anyone hold her, hug her, except in a sexual context, for roughly as long as she can remember, that the only flesh-to-flesh contact she's felt in a very long time has been intended to hurt her at worst and use her at best?  Not, obviously, in the same way as for trueAsmodia in trueCheliax.  But it could be true in alterCheliax that boys wouldn't have a concept of alterAsmodia as an asexual, and wouldn't offer to hold her in bed without thinking that sex might eventually be in the offing.  Keltham clearly thinks with a lot of probability that this might be true of alterAsmodia, based on whatever he already believes about alterCheliax.  It is the safer course not to contradict it.

So alterAsmodia hesitates a bit, and then says she's shy about discussing her history, in that way.  But she is definitely interested in taking up Keltham on that offer to see what happens.

It's... nice.

She catches herself thinking that she might want to sometimes Teleport back to wherever Keltham is, so long as it's nowhere near Cheliax, to have this again, if she hasn't found something equally warm and safe by then.

Does this imply the tropes are real?

Even as Asmodia tries to work out conditional probabilities and likelihood ratios in her head, the thought occurs to her that this is what Keltham's inner mental life must be like all the time.

And Asmodia still hasn't figured out how to Lawfully derive probabilities before evidence and it comes up every time she tries to do this.  She knows that things with added complications have to be less probable than the same things without those added complications, and that, unfortunately, is it.  Her entire algorithm for prior probabilities currently consists of making up numbers that maybe sorta sound right.  She should have tried to figure that out while she had the Most High's crown.

...all right, if Keltham is going to that length to make her feel safe - not that Asmodia would've felt even slightly unsafe, after reading Keltham's thought transcripts, and having like any concept whatsoever of who he is, especially as compared to the rest of Cheliax - not that Asmodia would even significantly complain if Keltham tried to have sex with her - then Asmodia will take him up on his offer, made after some spell-warmed and starlit discussion up on the fortress roof, to try having something warm snuggling her in bed under entirely non-ero circumstances.

Is it true in alterCheliax that alterAsmodia never had anyone hold her, hug her, except in a sexual context, for roughly as long as she can remember? That the only flesh-to-flesh contact she's felt in a very long time has been intended to hurt her at worst and use her at best?  It's not true, obviously, in the same way as for trueAsmodia in trueCheliax.  But it could be true in alterCheliax that boys wouldn't have a concept of alterAsmodia as an asexual, and wouldn't offer to hold her in bed without thinking that sex might eventually be in the offing.  Keltham clearly thinks with a lot of probability that this might be true of alterAsmodia, based on whatever he already believes about alterCheliax.  It is the safer course not to contradict it.

So alterAsmodia hesitates a bit, and then says she's shy about discussing her history, in that way.  But she is definitely interested in taking up Keltham on that offer to see what happens.

It's... nice.

She catches herself thinking that she might want to sometimes Teleport back to wherever Keltham is, so long as it's nowhere near Cheliax, to have this again, if she hasn't found something equally warm and safe by then.

Does this imply the tropes are real?

Even as Asmodia tries to work out conditional probabilities and likelihood ratios in her head, the thought occurs to her that this is what Keltham's inner mental life must be like all the time.

And Asmodia still hasn't figured out how to Lawfully derive probabilities before evidence and it comes up every time she tries to do this.  She knows that things with added complications have to be less probable than the same things without those added complications, and that, unfortunately, is it.  Her entire algorithm for prior probabilities currently consists of making up numbers that maybe sorta sound right.  She should have tried to figure that out while she had the Most High's crown.

...all right, if Keltham is going to that length to make her feel safe - not that Asmodia would've felt even slightly unsafe, after reading Keltham's thought transcripts, and having like any concept whatsoever of who he is, especially as compared to the rest of Cheliax - or that Asmodia would even significantly complain if Keltham tried to have sex with her - then Asmodia will take him up on his offer, made after some spell-warmed and starlit discussion up on the fortress roof, to try having something warm snuggling her in bed under entirely non-ero circumstances.

Is it true in alterCheliax that alterAsmodia never had anyone hold her, hug her, except in a sexual context, for roughly as long as she can remember? That the only flesh-to-flesh contact she's felt in a very long time has been intended to hurt her at worst and use her at best?  It can't have been the same for alterAsmodia as for trueAsmodia in trueCheliax, though Asmodia is having trouble visualizing exactly how it would have been different, the way her life must have gone instead.  But it could be true in alterCheliax that boys wouldn't have a concept of alterAsmodia as an asexual, and wouldn't offer to hold her in bed without thinking that sex might eventually be in the offing.  Keltham clearly assigns high probability that this might be true of alterAsmodia, based on whatever he already believes about alterCheliax.  It is the safer course not to contradict it.

So alterAsmodia hesitates a bit, and then says she's shy about discussing her history, in that way.  But she is definitely interested in taking up Keltham on that offer to see what happens.

It's... nice.

She catches herself thinking that she might want to sometimes Teleport back to wherever Keltham is, so long as it's nowhere near Cheliax, to have this again, if she hasn't found something equally warm and safe by then.

Does this imply the tropes are real?

Even as Asmodia tries to work out conditional probabilities and likelihood ratios in her head, the thought occurs to her that this is what Keltham's inner mental life must be like all the time.

And Asmodia still hasn't figured out how to Lawfully derive probabilities before evidence and it comes up every time she tries to do this.  She knows that things with added complications have to be less probable than the same things without those added complications, and that, unfortunately, is it.  Her entire algorithm for prior probabilities currently consists of making up numbers that maybe sorta sound right.  She should have tried to figure that out while she had the Most High's crown.