"Dath ilan has proverbs about the kind of advice that's easier to get from people who aren't friends with you."

"Dath ilan has proverbs about the kind of advice that's easier to get from people who aren't friends with you."

(Also, let's be frank here, Meritxell seems like she's handling the whole Cheliax thing possibly a bit better than Korva.)

"Dath ilan has proverbs about the kind of advice that's easier to get from people who aren't friends with you."

(Also, let's be frank here, Meritxell seems like she's handling the whole Cheliax thing possibly a bit better than Korva.  But even leaving that aside, Korva seems like she'd be much more useful for ripping apart the next layer of reality.)

"Dath ilan has proverbs about the kind of advice that's easier to get from people who aren't friends with you."

(Also, let's be frank here, Meritxell seems like she's handling the whole Cheliax thing possibly a bit better than Korva.  But even leaving that aside, Korva seems like she'd be much more useful for ripping apart the next layer of reality, and it is not impossible that this story requires him to be tied to a chair and hear everything he's doing wrong.)

"Dath ilan has proverbs about the kind of advice that's easier to get from people who aren't friends with you."

(Also, let's be frank here, Meritxell seems like she's handling the whole Cheliax thing possibly a bit better than Korva.  But even leaving that aside, Korva seems like she'd be more useful for ripping apart the next layer of reality, and it is not impossible that this story requires him to be tied to a chair and hear everything he's doing wrong.)

"Dath ilan has proverbs about the kind of advice that's easier to get from people who aren't friends with you.  Try it yourself sometime."

(It's a wordlessly obvious choice if you're dath ilani, for reasons that include Korva having just very loudly declared herself to be an Obvious Dath Ilani Story Protagonist who seeks out the truth and uses it to destroy things, Korva seeming like she'd be more useful for ripping apart the next layer of reality, the commonality with which dath ilani stories have plot turning-points where somebody gets tied to a chair and lectured on every single thing they're doing wrong, and, finally, the point that Korva seems to be maybe not doing as well at handling Cheliax compared to Meritxell.  Two days earlier Keltham would have questioned that last motivation as overly Good; he is now questioning that questioning.)

"Dath ilan has proverbs about the kind of advice that's easier to get from people who aren't friends with you.  Try it yourself sometime."

(It's a wordlessly obvious choice if you're dath ilani, for reasons that include Korva having just very loudly declared herself to be an Obvious Dath Ilani Story Protagonist who seeks out the truth and uses it to destroy things, Korva seeming like she'd be more useful for ripping apart the next layer of reality, the commonality with which dath ilani stories have plot turning-points where somebody gets tied to a chair and lectured on every single thing they're doing wrong; and, finally, the point that Korva seems to be maybe not doing as well at handling Cheliax compared to Meritxell.  Two days earlier Keltham would have questioned that last motivation as overly Good; he is now questioning that questioning.)