"Oh, you're not told about it in advance.  But I suppose Mariona would have been aware that getting better at her job would mean her doing more Evil of one sort or another.  I had never guessed that it would have been her obstacle.  Detect Thoughts would have informed the Church and myself if she had dared to believe such a thing about herself, and she did not."

"Do you believe that you and she are literally the same person, but -- brought into, occurring within, different countries?  I wonder if Estha ended up as any less of a Lawful Good extremist, then, given that I did not halt myself from rising under Cheliax.  -- In Taldane the name is Esta."

"Oh, you're not told about it in advance.  But I suppose Mariona would have been aware that getting better at her job would mean her doing more Evil of one sort or another.  I had never guessed that it could be her obstacle.  Detect Thoughts would have informed the Church and myself if she had dared to believe such a thing about herself, and she did not."

"Do you believe that you and she are literally the same person, but -- brought into, occurring within, different countries?  I wonder if Estha ended up as any less of a Lawful Good extremist, then, given that I did not halt myself from rising under Cheliax.  -- In Taldane the name is Esta."