"That I am, in fact, one of the Trope Girls.  That with Ione and Sevar gone, I'm the only person here who even begins to understand the theory of that, unless Aspexia Rugatonn takes personal charge.  That all this insanity is messing with the story in ways that the Most High should have needed to approve.  That Abrogail Thrune told Keltham of dath ilan that everything he valued in Cheliax would still be here waiting for him on his return, which includes not only Sevar but me.  If I just stop working, now that the basic deal has been broken under which I was previously working for Sevar and the Grand High Priestess - you can torture me into starting again, yes, but it will, in fact, break me.  Which deprives the Project of my actual and effective research, and destroys the Queen's plan to have everything Keltham wants here for him, and also destroys my usefulness to Aspexia Rugatonn's plan to produce her successor -"

Asmodia stops, then, because Maillol is writing something.

"That I am, in fact, one of the Trope Girls.  That with Ione and Sevar gone, I'm the only person here who even begins to understand the theory of that, unless Aspexia Rugatonn takes personal charge.  That all this insanity is messing with the story in ways that the Most High should have needed to approve.  That Abrogail Thrune promised Keltham that everything he valued in Cheliax would still be here waiting for his return, which includes not only Sevar but me.  If I just stop working, now that the basic deal has been broken under which I was previously working for Sevar and the Grand High Priestess - you can torture me into starting again, yes, but it will, in fact, break me.  Which deprives the Project of my actual and effective research, and destroys the Queen's plan to have everything Keltham wants here for him, and also destroys my usefulness to Aspexia Rugatonn's plan to produce her successor -"

Asmodia stops, then, because Maillol is writing something.