Asmodia opens her mouth to demand angrily how much Abarco wants to bet that Sevar doesn't come back, because, to break Sevar would be stupid beyond imagining -
- but there's reflexes installed into ilani, to not bet before being sure of their odds, and Asmodia realizes with a vertiginous horror that they might be that stupid. Because the fourth possibility is that nobody has any plans, and that nothing makes sense in the first place.
Her mouth operates on its own, as Asmodia tries to deal with this sudden inner panic. "How the fuck am I supposed to crush Avaricia, sir, leaving aside the question of how that serves Cheliax? Get one of Sevar's loyalists in Security to buy a scroll of Plane Shift and send her to Abaddon? Because I model that as actually pissing off our superiors, and anything short of that just makes Avaricia angry and escalates a war between Project factions that Cheliax can't win."