"We are suffering from fabricated, stolen, or adjusted memories. Some combination of those two, applying to me, to you, or to both of us, sufficient-to-account-for-discrepancy. One day ago as I remember it, you and I, in the same place, came into simultaneous contact with an entity I'm trying not to think about in detail but certainly powerful enough to transport us here and modify our minds. I would not call it fullyunderstood but it is -- fundamentally within retrospectiveprediction if not advanceexactprediction. As my understanding makes more retrospectivesense than yours, I therefore defeasiblysuspect that your mind has been affected more than my own, which is also what would have been advancepredicted based on our respective degrees of susceptibility to -- mind control."
What a strange language. It is so much more Lawful than Esta would have suspected of the Dark Tapestry. It is expressing thoughts more precise than Esta himself ever previously had words for, shades of meaning that Taldane would not distinguish. Even Infernal as Esta knows it would not distinguish those words, and it is suddenly obvious that this is because Hell's intervention budget cannot afford to teach mortal Asmodeans real Infernal. Aspexia Rugatonn would fucking love this language, if anyone could strip all the Dark Tapestryness out of it...
...or Esta once previously knew all those words and meanings, and has forgotten them as thoroughly as Mariona has forgotten words about magic.