Meanwhile Asmodia is, in a state of very calm total panic, considering what will probably be Keltham's obvious next move:

He asks for particular topics, and then, after reading each excerpt, generates a random number to decide whether to spend three minutes skimming a hundred pages from there.

Asmodia is not in fact seeing a counter to this particular tactic.  They can't just hand Keltham complete books open to different places, each time, because even at the speed he's skimming, Keltham will notice if he reads ahead and sees that he's reading an excerpt he's already read.

She can't think can't think can't think of any counter - does Sevar have a counter -

Meanwhile Asmodia is, in a state of very calm total panic, considering what will probably be Keltham's obvious next move:

He asks for particular topics, and then, after reading each excerpt, generates a random number to decide whether to spend three minutes skimming a hundred pages from there.

Asmodia is not in fact seeing a counter to this particular tactic.  They can't just hand Keltham complete books open to different places, each time, because even at the speed he's skimming, Keltham will notice if he reads ahead and sees that he's reading an excerpt he's already read.

And then - then that just works, so far as Asmodia can see, Keltham wins, the Conspiracy can't counter that unless they actually have that many completed books and they don't -

She can't think can't think can't think of any counter - does Sevar have a counter -

Meanwhile Asmodia is in a state of very calm total panic, considering what will probably be Keltham's obvious next move:

He asks for particular topics, and then, after reading each excerpt, generates a random number to decide whether to spend three minutes skimming a hundred pages from there.

Asmodia is not in fact seeing a counter to this particular tactic.  They can't just hand Keltham complete books open to different places, each time, because even at the speed he's skimming, Keltham will notice if he reads ahead and sees that he's reading an excerpt he's already read.

And then - then that just works, so far as Asmodia can see, Keltham wins, the Conspiracy can't counter that unless they actually have that many completed books and they don't -

She can't think can't think can't think of any counter - does Sevar have a counter -