"It's the same reason we only speak circuitously about our own plot to give Cheliax a shield against Keltham."
"Sevar is proving unable to figure out her own seduction plan, because the tropes require Sevar's character perspective to not know her own plan until the moment she implements it."
"There's theoretically more things we could try, like Remove Fear, or putting her back into her bedroom and Suggesting that we've given up on figuring it out and nobody is looking at her. But we'd be fighting tropes the whole way, and anything we could try that would actually succeed would get shut down. Somehow."