"Lovely. Shut up while I think."
Aspexia Rugatonn weighs the packet in her hands. She's no ilani, but she's read every Project Lawful transcript and is very, very Wise.
The temptation to tear open the packet and read it immediately is strong. But there's an obvious thought, here, which is that Sevar went traitor, knew she couldn't pass Detect Thoughts past that point; and that this past Sevar is essaying some gambit intended to get her less-enhanced self out of Cheliax and to Keltham.
This past Sevar has INT 24, which is noticeably more Cunning than Rugatonn, even if that Sevar remains much less Wise than herself.
Then it may be wiser for Aspexia to do her own thinking before she opens the packet and allows it to poison her thinking, at least briefly so. Aspexia will make her predictions in advance, decide in advance which theories imply what, as Keltham always emphasized that an ilani should.
If Sevar turned traitor the first time she augmented herself with +6 intelligence and +4 Wisdom - the packet will aim to steer her still-loyal mindwiped self in a way that will reproduce her traitorous realization under conditions where she can escape Cheliax and reach Keltham as soon as she has that realization. The packet will argue that Sevar mustn't be allowed to have +4 Wisdom again, until she is in some strange unusual situation that places her out of Cheliax's reach, or within Keltham's.
If Sevar is a good Asmodean - then there is here some thought Sevar could not bear, and she honestly wishes herself defended from it. Perhaps she has actually done the equivalent of seeing through to the Dark Tapestry and the packet will contain a further seal instructing Aspexia to show the contents only to Gorthoklek. Perhaps it is some more ordinary disloyal thought and Sevar did not wish to die a traitor's death, or lose her place in Cheliax; and her packet will advise as to how her unwitting self is to be reshaped in some ordinary way that prevents a recurrence, in a plan that brings her no closer to Osirion.
At INT 24, Aspexia's own thoughts here will not be beyond a traitorous Sevar's attempted grasp. Many in Cheliax have tried to think like Aspexia Rugatonn, correctly knowing this for a path to power and fortune if she recognizes them as even beginning to grasp it. - but this thinking Aspexia has just done, does not draw on that which makes her a 9th-circle of Asmodeus.
A traitorous and clever Sevar, then, will be trying to obscure the distinction between those two cases, and all complication is a sign of her disloyalty. One who grasps this thought has indeed begun to ravel Aspexia Rugatonn - which may not be beyond Sevar's grasp, it wasn't beyond Asmodia's.
It would be more certain reasoning, if not for tropes.
Aspexia opens the packet, and reads the first page there.
Most High -