"No shit, Korva.  Your alter-sister is doing great in Hell and you're in no hurry to rez her.  If you accumulate enough money and pull working for me that you can actually rez her, do it off the books where Keltham can't see."

"Do we - think that people in alter-Cheliax, Korva in alter-Cheliax, doesn't break down in tears just because they can't get the job?  They also need a dead sister they were hoping to rez?  If you're telling the complete truth about what drove you to a breakdown here - and if you were foolish enough to be concealing anything else, you'd better unconceal it right now, because there will be a Security check later - then it's just true that you encountered a stressor large enough to break you in real-Cheliax."

"The stakes for getting the job are higher in realCheliax, but people in alter-Cheliax suffer less crippling penalties for breaking down in tears.  Plausibly that balances out."

"No shit, Korva.  Your alter-sister is doing great in Hell and you're in no hurry to rez her.  If you accumulate enough money and pull working for me that you can actually rez her, do it off the books where Keltham can't see."

"Do we - think that people in alter-Cheliax, Korva in alter-Cheliax, doesn't break down in tears just because they can't get the job?  They also need a dead sister they were hoping to rez?  If you're telling the complete truth about what drove you to a breakdown here - and if you were foolish enough to be concealing anything else, you'd better unconceal it right now, because there will be a Security check later - then it's just true that you encountered a stressor large enough to break you in real-Cheliax.  Any time we can go with something very close to the real story, we usually try to do that, because it often has a ring of realness to it that a more dramatic story lacks."

"The stakes for getting the job are higher in realCheliax, but people in alter-Cheliax suffer less crippling penalties for breaking down in tears.  Plausibly that balances out."

"No shit, Korva.  Your alter-sister is doing great in Hell and you're in no hurry to rez her.  If you accumulate enough money and pull working for me that you can actually rez her, and you feel like doing that, do it off the books where Keltham can't see."

"Do we - think that people in alter-Cheliax, Korva in alter-Cheliax, doesn't break down in tears just because they can't get the job?  They also need a dead sister they were hoping to rez?  If you're telling the complete truth about what drove you to a breakdown here - and if you were foolish enough to be concealing anything else, you'd better unconceal it right now, because there will be a Security check later - then it's just true that you encountered a stressor large enough to break you in real-Cheliax.  Any time we can go with something very close to the real story, we usually try to do that, because it often has a ring of realness to it that a more dramatic story lacks."

"The stakes for getting the job are higher in realCheliax, but people in alter-Cheliax suffer less crippling penalties for breaking down in tears.  Plausibly that balances out."

"No shit, Korva.  Your alter-sister is doing great in Hell and you're in no hurry to rez her.  If you accumulate enough money and pull working for me that you can actually rez her, and you feel like doing that, do it off the books where Keltham can't see."

"Do we - think that someone in alter-Cheliax, Korva in alter-Cheliax, doesn't break down in tears just because they can't get the job?  They also need a dead sister they were hoping to rez?  If you're telling the complete truth about what drove you to a breakdown here - and if you were foolish enough to be concealing anything else, you'd better unconceal it right now, because there will be a Security check later - then it's just true that you encountered a stressor large enough to break you in real-Cheliax.  Any time we can go with something very close to the real story, we usually try to do that, because it often has a ring of realness to it that a more dramatic story lacks."

"The stakes for getting the job are higher in realCheliax, but people in alter-Cheliax suffer less crippling penalties for breaking down in tears.  Plausibly that balances out."