"I am concerned about the potential dynamic this is heading into, where you have bright ideas and want to do them, and I keep having to be the one saying 'no'.  I think you would notice as many as several issues with doing this two hours from now, given two hours to think about it.  I want to send you off to think about it, but I feel it would be dishonest to claim that I would, at the end of those two hours, assent to that use of those Wishes that I purchased from you and that you gave me in reparation, three of which I saved out against better-advised uses than this."

"Wish phrasings that destroy whole countries are weirdly difficult to come by.  Osirion thought they needed me for that.  I don't think Hell would be much inclined to interpret any ambiguities in your favor, either, if you tried using your Hell-wish for that."

"That said, if you think you have a good-enough wording based on only the ilani knowledge you have, which I had thought was carefully selected not to be dangerous in that way... Osirion does have a Wish scroll.  I will think about whether the agreements we've made so far are ones that I interpret to mean you couldn't try to talk Osirion into it."

"I'm saying this, and making that much of a suggestion for how you could try to destroy Cheliax this afternoon anyways, despite blatant flaws in your proposal as first stated by you, only because I do not want our relationship to get into a mode where I am the obstacle to all of your bright ideas.  Rather than, as is actually the case, your haste and your terror and the resulting flaws in your ideas, being the obstacle to your ideas."

"I don't own you and can't give you orders.  I suggest that you go take a break, Carissa.  I suggest that you think that proposal over and talk to Carmin or Fe-Anar.  Please convey to them that I said that you shouldn't be told about the really basic obstacle to destroying Cheliax this afternoon, because I think it is important for you to think the problems through without knowing that."

"I am concerned about the potential dynamic this is heading into, where you have bright ideas and want to do them, and I keep having to be the one saying 'no'.  I think you would notice as many as several issues with doing this two hours from now, given two hours to think about it.  I want to send you off to think about it, but I feel it would be dishonest to claim that I would, at the end of those two hours, assent to that use of those Wishes that I purchased from you and that you gave me in reparation, three of which I saved out against better-advised uses than this."

"Wish phrasings that destroy whole countries are weirdly difficult to come by, go figure.  Osirion thought they needed me for that.  I don't think Hell would be much inclined to interpret any ambiguities in your favor, either, if you tried using your Hell-Wish for that."

"That said, if you think you have a good-enough wording based on only the ilani knowledge you have, which I had thought was carefully selected not to be dangerous in that way... Osirion does have a Wish scroll.  I will think about whether the agreements we've made so far are ones that I interpret to mean you couldn't try to talk Osirion into it."

"I'm saying this, and making that much of a suggestion for how you could try to destroy Cheliax this afternoon anyways, despite blatant flaws in your proposal as first stated by you, only because I do not want our relationship to get into a mode where I am the obstacle to all of your bright ideas.  Rather than, as is actually the case, your haste and your terror and the resulting flaws in your ideas, being the obstacle to your ideas."

"I don't own you and can't give you orders.  I suggest that you go take a break, Carissa.  I suggest that you think that proposal over and talk to Carmin or Fe-Anar.  Please convey to them that I said that you shouldn't be told about the really basic obstacle to destroying Cheliax this afternoon, because I think it is important for you to think the problems through without knowing that."

"I am concerned about the potential dynamic this is heading into, where you have bright ideas and want to do them, and I keep having to be the one saying 'no'.  I think you would notice as many as several issues with doing this two hours from now, given two hours to think about it.  I want to send you off to think about it, but I feel it would be dishonest to claim that I would, at the end of those two hours, assent to that use of those Wishes that I purchased from you and that you gave me in reparation, three of which I saved out against better-advised uses than this."

"Wish phrasings that destroy whole countries are weirdly difficult to come by, go figure.  Osirion thought they needed me for that.  I don't think Hell would be much inclined to interpret any ambiguities in your favor, either, if you tried using your Hell-Wish for that."

"That said, if you think you have a good-enough wording based on only the ilani knowledge you have, which I had thought was carefully selected not to be dangerous in that way... Osirion does have a Wish scroll.  I will think about whether the agreements we've made so far are ones that I interpret to mean you couldn't try to talk Osirion into it."

"I'm saying this, and making that much of a suggestion for how you could try to destroy Cheliax this afternoon anyways, despite blatant flaws in your proposal as first stated by you, only because I do not want our relationship to get into a mode where I am the obstacle to all of your bright ideas.  Rather than, as is actually the case, your haste and your terror and the resulting flaws in your ideas, being the obstacle to your ideas."

"I don't own you and can't give you orders.  I suggest that you go take a break, Carissa.  I suggest that you think that proposal over and talk to Carmin or Fe-Anar.  Please convey to them that I said that you shouldn't be told about the really basic obstacle to destroying Cheliax two hours from now with a hastily-assembled Wish, because I think it is important for you to think the problems through without knowing that."