Interesting. She would have expected more of a reaction there, given Merrin's other thoughts. She can't quite see how it relates to the slave conditioning, but it probably does.
"I'm not quite sure how to explain Rugatonn... she works for Asmodeus more directly than any other human in Golarion, and from the standpoint of somebody in Golarion, it has made her more than slightly odd. Maybe if you're not from Golarion you couldn't tell the difference because we'd just all seem very odd."
"Ah, would you care to change your clothes back, and let us go find out whatever Negotiations," as close as this language comes to 'diplomacy', "has come up with for you?"