"Don't think too highly of her, shadow of Carissa Sevar.  She is not quite as clever as she believed.  She is not the first to try this gambit.  Not the tenth.  Not the hundredth.  I am older than she, and have been doing this a long time."

"When somebody erases their own memories before negotiating with a deity who can read them, it's because they know something themselves that would adversely affect their price.  Oh, they rarely set out to cheat their own future owner entirely, they know that would not be healthy.  But there's always something.  Just enough to get one over on Me, in an Asmodean way, they think, that will prove their own cleverness and value.  Not so much as to truly enrage Me, not so much that I do not Myself gain."

"I think that's worth a discount, don't you?  And be it clear, I'm not speaking to you, puppet.  I'm addressing the high priestess who stands at your side, who will have been sent along with you by the true Carissa Sevar with the real negotiating instructions."

"Don't think too highly of her, shadow of Carissa Sevar.  She is not quite as clever as she believed.  She is not the first to try this gambit.  Not the tenth.  Not the hundredth.  I am older than she, and have been doing this a long time."

"When somebody erases their own memories before negotiating with a deity who can read them, it's because they know something themselves that would adversely affect their price.  Oh, they rarely set out to cheat their own future owner entirely, they know that would not be healthy.  But there's always something.  Just enough to get one over on Me, in an Asmodean way, they think, that will prove their own cleverness and value.  Not so much as to truly enrage Me, not so much that I have really lost on the trade."

"I think that's worth a discount, don't you?  For the information you've withheld from me, whose existence you've failed to conceal.  And be it clear, I'm not speaking to you, puppet.  I'm addressing the high priestess who stands at your side, who will have been sent along with you by the true Carissa Sevar with the real negotiating instructions."

"Don't think too highly of her, shadow of Carissa Sevar.  She is not quite as clever as she believed.  She is not the first to try this gambit.  Not the tenth.  Not the hundredth.  I am older than she, and have been doing this a long time."

"When somebody erases their own memories before negotiating with a deity who can read them, it's because they know something themselves that would adversely affect their price.  Oh, they rarely set out to cheat their own future owner entirely, they know that would not be healthy.  But there's always something.  Just enough to get one over on Me, in an Asmodean way, they think, that will prove their own cleverness and value.  Not so much as to truly enrage Me, not so much that I have really lost on the trade."

"I think that's worth a discount, don't you?  For the information you've withheld from me, whose existence you've failed to conceal.  And be it clear, I'm not speaking to you, puppet.  I'm addressing the high priestess who stands at your side, who will have been sent along with you by the true Carissa Sevar with the real negotiating instructions, unknown even to yourself."

"This is not my first game of memories, not my tenth, and not my hundredth."

"Don't think too highly of her, shadow of Carissa Sevar.  She is not quite as clever as she believed.  She is not the first to try this gambit.  Not the tenth.  Not the hundredth.  I am older than she, and have been doing this a long time."

"When somebody erases their own memories before negotiating with a deity who can read them, it's because they know something themselves that would adversely affect their price.  Oh, they rarely set out to cheat their own future owner entirely, they know that would not be healthy.  But there's always something.  Just enough to get one over on Me, in an Asmodean way, they think, that will prove their own cleverness and value.  Not so much as to truly enrage Me, not so much that I have really lost on the trade."

"I think that's worth a discount, don't you?  For the information you've withheld from Me, whose existence you've failed to conceal.  And be it clear, I'm not speaking to you, puppet.  I'm addressing the high priestess who stands at your side, who will have been sent along with you by the true Carissa Sevar with the real negotiating instructions, unknown even to yourself."

"This is not my first game of memories, not my tenth, and not my hundredth."

"Don't think too highly of her, shadow of Carissa Sevar.  She is not quite as clever as she believed.  She is not the first to try this gambit.  Not the tenth.  Not the hundredth.  I am older than she, and have been doing this a long time."

"When somebody erases their own memories before negotiating with a deity who can read them, it's because they know something themselves that would adversely affect their price.  Oh, they rarely set out to cheat their own future owner entirely, they know that would not be healthy.  But there's always something.  Just enough to get one over on Me, in an Asmodean way, they think, that will prove their own cleverness and value.  Not so much as to truly enrage Me, not so much that I have really lost on the trade."

"I think that's worth a discount, don't you?  For the information you've withheld from Me, whose existence you've failed to conceal.  And be it clear, I'm not speaking to you, puppet.  I'm addressing the high priestess who stands at your side, who will have been sent along with you by the true Carissa Sevar with the real negotiating instructions, unknown even to yourself."

"This is not My first game of memories, not My tenth, and not My hundredth."