Lunise sighed through her nose and shook her head. "I know very little of CHIM. Too little to reasonably judge Hal-Neesa's knowledge. What you mention does provide a silver lining, however. We can at least say she has a goal beyond pure hedonism. That puts her at least partially out of risk of doing awful things while she is here for the [i]fun[/i] of it."

"Do you really think she could attain godhood?" Sabine asked. "Or...surpass it, like she said?"

After blinking so slowly every ounce of deductions could have been flashing before her eyes, Lunise shrugged. "If she can, there is very little we can do to stop her. However, she has evidently been working upon that project for longer than I have been alive. I doubt it is worth the worry in the relatively short time we may have to suffer her presence."

Lunise fidgeted in place. Then, somewhat hesitantly, and most uncharacteristically for her public persona, she reached a palm out to place on Meesei's back. "It may be helpful to see this episode as a won battle in a declared war of information, Meesei. We learnt much about her. And with that, her little display of knowledge was to our favour, relatively speaking."