"The safest thing is to figure out what we're doing in alter-Cheliax and doing that. Every time we ask what's safe for the Conspiracy, we act like the Conspiracy."
"Parenthetically, I note that you don't have a dead sibling you needed to resurrect, you could maybe have a dead cousin since you actually have one of those, the part where you have a dead sibling instead changes the statistical distribution of those inside alter-Cheliax or shows that a trope may be in play."
"Right now, in alter-Cheliax, it sounds like maybe Maillol is gently talking to you with his great Asmodian priestly competence at that, like the expert emergency response personnel that he is, finding out what really happened. He definitely didn't talk for five minutes, and then snap-approve me taking responsibility for you so that he could get you out of his office."
"We need to figure out what really happened in alter-Cheliax, and then we need to figure out what alter-Cheliax tells Keltham about that. It's fine if that contradicts whatever hypothesis Keltham has now. What it has to not do is contradict the way he's seen Maillol, Sevar, myself, Security, you, act about it."