Then Asmodeus will set a small fragment of His attention to go on watching Desna while Desna squirrel-watches here - obviously with much more of Her attention than His, if Her claim just then to be separately interested was at all true.  Asmodeus supposes that in due time, once Desna has burned more of Her attention then She could reasonably hope to gain from not paying Him off, He might accept His allegedly inevitable loss as real and permit Desna's intervention to go through.

Then Asmodeus will set a small fragment of His attention to go on watching Desna while Desna squirrel-watches here - obviously with much more of Her attention than His, if Her claim just then to be separately interested was at all true.  Asmodeus supposes that in due time, once Desna has burned more of Her attention than She could reasonably hope to gain from not paying Him off, He might accept His allegedly inevitable loss as real and permit Desna's intervention to go through.

Then Asmodeus will set a small fragment of His attention to go on watching while Desna squirrel-watches here - obviously with much more of Her attention than His, if Her claim just then to be separately interested was at all true.  Asmodeus supposes that in due time, once Desna has burned more of Her attention than She could reasonably hope to gain from not paying Him off, He might accept His allegedly inevitable loss as real and permit Desna's intervention to go through.