"Yes, I expected you'd say that.  It's not, actually, a very widespread intution, as best as I've been able to determine from some hired quick surveys.  That I landed on somebody at the Worldwound with that worldview is not, I think, very much more probable than Pilar Pineda being in that particular class of wizard students in Ostenso."

"That you might, in any sense, be on board with this, was based on the prospect of fewer people exiting this reality from Abaddon and the Abyss, if all goes well.  Not on anybody being rescued from their current or prospective eternal torment in Hell."

"Though, of course, you cannot in any sense try to use me as a tool to that end, and have any significant impact about it, because then Pharasma ignores your 'threat-by-proxy'."

"Yes, I expected you'd say that.  It's not, actually, a very widespread intution, as best as I've been able to determine from some hired quick surveys.  That I landed on somebody at the Worldwound with that worldview is not, I think, very much more probable than Pilar Pineda being in that particular class of wizard students in Ostenso."

"That you might, in any sense, be on board with this, was based on the prospect of fewer people exiting this reality from Abaddon and the Abyss, if all goes well.  Not on anybody being rescued from their current or prospective eternal torment in Hell."

"Though, of course, you cannot in any sense try to use me as a tool to that end, and have any significant impact about it, because then Pharasma ignores your 'threat-by-proxy' and looks past Keltham and says 'Sure, let's die in a fire together, Carissa Sevar.'"

"Yes, I expected you'd say that.  It's not, actually, a very widespread intution, as best as I've been able to determine from some hired quick surveys.  That I landed on somebody at the Worldwound with that worldview is not, I think, very much more probable than Pilar Pineda being in that particular class of wizard students in Ostenso."

"That you might, in any sense, be on board with this, was based on the prospect of fewer people exiting this reality from Abaddon and the Abyss, if all goes well.  Not on anybody being rescued from their current or prospective eternal torment in Hell."

"Though, of course, you cannot in any sense try to use me as a tool to that end, and have any significant impact about it, because then Pharasma ignores your 'threat-by-proxy' and looks past me and says 'Sure, let's die in a fire together, Carissa Sevar.'"