Esta thinks about this point, strangely chilled.

(Somewhere inside himself is a watcher that knows which evidence Esta is suppressing, and where it would point if it weren't suppressed, which is how Esta's brain knows which thoughts must be suppressed in advance of thinking them.  That watcher cannot cogitate in words, it is all System 1 and no System 2, as stupider compared to Esta as an LLM without versus with chain-of-thought and reasoning enabled.  But part of Esta knows that Asmodeus felt more distant, last time he prayed.)

Esta thinks about this point, strangely chilled.

(Somewhere inside himself is a watcher that knows which evidence Esta is suppressing, and where that thought would go if it weren't suppressed, which is how Esta's brain knows which thoughts must be suppressed in advance of thinking them.  That watcher cannot cogitate in words, it is all System 1 and no System 2, as stupider compared to Esta as an LLM without versus with chain-of-thought and reasoning enabled.  But part of Esta knows that Asmodeus felt more distant, last time he prayed.)