"Chosen, you are slaver now and not only slave. You need to think of torments as tools that have effects. Rugatonn assigned you this task specifically so that you would learn to use torture, not only because you were starting to be reckless. If you learn how to benefit from any random torment you are given, you will not have learned something useful for ruling over Project Lawful, because they won't have that skill."
"Bluntly, Sevar, you have a mental block on choosing torments and not just enduring them. You have a block on this even when it makes no sense from the standpoint of either Asmodeus's interests or your own. You refused me input on what instruments I should seek to lend to Keltham, though admittedly with some fortuitous results. You refused me input on exactly how to punish you for your failure in the game you designed, after I told you that you would regret not being specific."
"You will not go in with a punishment code for heresy and leave the exact choice of torment to the temple. You will think about what exactly could be done to you, you will think about its probable effect on you, you will decide on a punishment that you think will teach you not to disrespect Asmodeus in the future, you will actually undergo this punishment. You will not let them assign you some torment you didn't choose, and then try to learn the intended lesson regardless. It's a reasonable thing for an Asmodean to want to learn, but it is not what Aspexia Rugatonn told you to learn."