"I fear, Lady Avaricia, that we are too busy about our god-given tasks to prove our worth to you. I hardly know how I'll find time to train the Most High's successor, when the Most High presents me with a suitable candidate, at this rate. Sevar must hardly ever get to see her other lover, the Queen of Cheliax..."
"I have the strangest sense that I ought to send you out with Pilar Pineda on some sort of life-changing journey? But Pilar's also busy. I'm not sure she's even around, right now, tonight might be her weekly night for sweeping Egorian clear of any new spies."