<strong>Eliza</strong>, Gull pauses only as long as he needs to courteously divert himself from your stepmother and return his attention to you with a (mostly) sincere apology for his lapse, couched as it is with praise for Lady Oksana's wit. After that, you have his full attention...and possibly you regret having it, because while the man often talks like a buffoon and seems prone to dissembling, you get the vague impression that he's played you like a cheap piano.  Oh, it isn't anything you can put your finger on, and he agrees to the deal with a surprising lack of resistance on certain elements (and equally surprising stubbornness on others), but it will probably be a<em>very</em>good idea to have a few mentats look over the arrangements afterwards to make sure you haven't done something silly.<br/><br/><strong>Nadira</strong>, Lady Consort Oksana approaches you and Lakshmi not long after she gracefully disengages from Gull. She studies Lakshmi for a few seconds, then focuses on you.<br/><br/>"Well," she asks, blunt and abrupt as ever when her mentat conditioning is guiding her steps.