"It's funny how, now and then, and despite a lot of things, I get the feeling that you are in some deep sense a better person than I am.  I mean, Carmin probably wouldn't even think it was funny, she'd just say, sure, Carissa would have grown up to be a much better person than you, given much better circumstances, and now that's starting to shine through."

"I - would not be very surprised if a good solution here, ends up looking like, my staying mostly out of your way, for the next ten days subjective, pending a trip to the City of Brass where you get your baseline Wisdom wished up.  After that point we'll both be INT 29 and it will be quite a subversion of my expectations if we - end up talking to each other the same way, after that."

"I don't trust my brain to be okay while I sleep, if transient scaffolding for my cognitive reflectivity gets erased while I'm doing that.  Let's frontload the Vudra and Kelesh visits."

"Do you expect to be okay with 6 points of sudden Wisdom loss?  I can try to locate a +4/+4 artifact headband on an emergency basis while you're touring the local meetups of your fan club."

"It's funny how, now and then, and despite a lot of things, I get the feeling that you are in some deep sense a better person than I am.  I mean, Carmin probably wouldn't even think it was funny, she'd just say, sure, Carissa would have grown up to be a much better person than you, given much better circumstances, and now that's starting to shine through."

"I - would not be very surprised if a good solution here, ends up looking like, my staying mostly out of your way, for the next ten days subjective, pending a trip to the City of Brass where you get your baseline Wisdom wished up.  After that point we'll both be INT 29 and it will be quite a subversion of my expectations if we - end up talking to each other the same way, after that."

"I don't trust my brain to be okay while I sleep, if transient scaffolding for my cognitive reflectivity gets erased while I'm doing that.  Let's frontload the Vudra and Kelesh visits."

"Do you expect to be okay with 6 points of sudden Wisdom loss?  I can try to locate a +4/+4/+0 artifact headband on an emergency basis while you're touring the local meetups of your fan club, but you'd be at less than max Intelligence so I don't even know if you would."

"It's funny how, now and then, and despite a lot of things, I get the feeling that you are in some deep sense a better person than I am.  I mean, Carmin probably wouldn't even think it was funny, she'd just say, sure, Carissa would have grown up to be a much better person than you, given better circumstances, and now that's starting to shine through."

"I - would not be very surprised if a good solution here, ends up looking like, my staying mostly out of your way, for the next ten days subjective, pending a trip to the City of Brass where you get your baseline Wisdom wished up.  After that point we'll both be INT 29 and it will be quite a subversion of my expectations if we - end up talking to each other the same way, after that."

"I don't trust my brain to be okay while I sleep, if transient scaffolding for my cognitive reflectivity gets erased while I'm doing that.  Let's frontload the Vudra and Kelesh visits."

"Do you expect to be okay with 6 points of sudden Wisdom loss?  I can try to locate a +4/+4/+0 artifact headband on an emergency basis while you're touring the local meetups of your fan club, but you'd be at less than max Intelligence so I don't even know if you would."

"I could do the marginal thing.  Don't expect to run into many marginal cases, but - if I do - sure."

"It's funny how, now and then, and despite a lot of things, I get the feeling that you are in some deep sense a better person than I am.  I mean, Carmin probably wouldn't even think it was funny, she'd just say, sure, Carissa would have grown up to be a much better person than you, given better circumstances, and now that's starting to shine through."

"I - would not be very surprised if a good solution here, ends up looking like, my staying mostly out of your way, for the next ten days subjective, pending a trip to the City of Brass where you get your baseline Wisdom wished up.  After that point we'll both be INT 29 and it will be quite a subversion of my expectations if we - end up talking to each other the same way, after that."

"I don't trust my brain to be okay while I sleep, if transient scaffolding for my cognitive reflectivity gets erased while I'm doing that.  Let's frontload the Vudra and Kelesh visits."

"Do you expect to be okay with 6 points of sudden Wisdom loss?  I can try to locate a +4/+4/+0 artifact headband on an emergency basis while you're touring the local meetups of your fan club, but you'd be at less than max Intelligence so I don't even know if you would."