After Merrin leaves the room, he mostly stares blankly at the wall, because there's not a thing his muscles are obviously supposed to be doing.
my stretch goal here is still to find a way to keep you out of Hell --
Autocomplete from thought patterns nearer to the level of memorization: How pathetic, that she cares.
Midrange/midlevel wordless generalization: **Do not think any heretical thoughts; that would constitute failure at the task of not thinking heretical thoughts.**
Aborted output from planning / propagation from good/bad outcomes to intervening events: Wasn't the classification of that as 'failure' based on different circumstances from present ones?
Midrange generalization: **Think about the inescapability of Hell to avoid heresy and impress anyone reading your mind or who later asks what you were thinking.**
Top-level thought: She has no idea how thoroughly I'm damned.