Asmodia's thoughts have wandered to how she could breach to Korva the subject of her being Asmodia's replacement snuggling partner. They're both probable-asexuals so it should be safe, right? Asmodia is Korva's superior, but she doesn't actually want an unwilling snuggling partner. Asmodia does have Detect Thoughts and some proficiency with it, it was a very useful spell at Ostenso academy. Asmodia could just order Korva to fail her Will save, to determine how Korva really feels about a proposal like that... no, that's a bit overt and aggressive, Korva might not like that.
Asmodia will just order Security to read Korva's mind about it, when the subject comes up, and report to Asmodia. That seems less likely to offend Korva, if Security can do it without Korva noticing.
...it feels like Korva couldn't replace Keltham, any more than Keltham could replace Korva.
Hey, Asmodia says into her Telepathic Bond. I notice that I've seemed to start actually caring about Keltham, in the sense that the thought of not being able to snuggle him any more feels actually uncomfortable and it doesn't feel like anyone else could actually replace him about that. I register that this matches a correct, purely-trope-based prediction that I made earlier about what would happen to me by the time we needed to run a fake escape plan. I predict that any fake escape plan is going to fail unless it has at least me and Ione, possibly Yaisa I'm not sure somebody needs to read her mind about it. Everyone who's started actually caring about Keltham. The tropes won't let it work otherwise.