"The Lady may not care about all her tools," Dido points out, "but she's invested a lot in Loni. She spent years pretending to be her uncle, threw an army of angelic machine monsters at us to help him break free, when it may have been more cost-effective to find a new dupe."

Dido thinks back to her intrusion on the command conference.

"Something that bugs me, which I mentioned to the command staff...if the Lady's end-goal is to assemble the three seals in the Discovery and open a portal to this world...why spend so much effort making a Hero and running him through a hero's journey?"