It - rhymes, somehow, with the advice that Sevar tried to give her. It's not pointing to exactly the same problem or solution, but where it does point is crisper, clearer, more Lawful, when you hear Keltham speak he makes it clear why a Lawful mind must do as he describes. It's probably prerequisite to what Sevar was trying to say, Pilar is guessing."
The advice - is not necessarily pleasant for her, if she ends up unable to dismiss her hopes, walking around with burning coals of 'maybe' pressed into her, until she learns to discipline her own thoughts by force. But 'pleasant' is hardly what Asmodeanism is about.
"Understood," Pilar says, and then, remembering that she is alterPilar in alterCheliax, "thank you."