"I think it's your job to know the answer to that in Sevarian Asmodeanism, Pilar. Especially when you are, let's be blunt here, smarter than Maillol and Subirachs, and you are able to grasp aspects of this situation they cannot, including everything to do with tropes, and you have made no effort to warn them of your differing predictions, or check if they want to give you different orders."
"You are not being an ideal slave. You are not being the most useful possible slave. You are being the sort of slave Pilar Pineda finds it most fun to be."