Rugatonn's power is about her already; she knew she was courting this possibility, and gambled on no worse than this coming of it.

"I suppose I should thank Nethys.  Thanks to Him, we've had Keltham for rather longer than we might have otherwise, and Cheliax is now greatly advantaged compared to many possibilities that might have been.  I don't suppose you know what He was doing, or Cayden Cailean, and would care to explain?"

Rugatonn's power is about herself already; she knew that to call herself Clepati was to court the real Nefreti Clepati's attention, but gambled on no worse than this coming of it.

"I suppose I should thank Nethys.  Thanks to Him, we've had Keltham for rather longer than we might have otherwise, and Cheliax is now greatly advantaged compared to many possibilities that might have been.  I don't suppose you know what He was doing, or Cayden Cailean, and would care to explain?"

Rugatonn's power is about herself already; she knew that to pretend herself Clepati was to court the real Nefreti Clepati's attention, but gambled on no worse than this coming of it.

"I suppose I should thank Nethys.  Thanks to Him, we've had Keltham for rather longer than we might have otherwise, and Cheliax is now greatly advantaged compared to many possibilities that might have been.  I don't suppose you know what He was doing, or Cayden Cailean, and would care to explain?"

Rugatonn's power is about her already; she knew that to pretend herself Clepati was to court the real Nefreti Clepati's attention, but gambled on no worse than this coming of it.

"I suppose I should thank Nethys.  Thanks to Him, we've had Keltham for rather longer than we might have otherwise, and Cheliax is now greatly advantaged compared to many possibilities that might have been.  I don't suppose you know what He was doing, or Cayden Cailean, and would care to explain?"