[I'm honestly not sure whether Sasha believes in faction powers. Her heptarchate cultural knowledge has some gaps, and you might have noticed that the long list of things she's paranoid about doesn't include enthrallment from Ashari.
It would be entertaining if lack of faction power is the real reason she's not Nirai, though. Sasha thinks she failed the entrance exam because she used up all her time explaining that the plane curve with the action of the simple group with 168 elements isn't smooth in characteristic seven, so all the multiple-choice options were wrong. But her records said she failed due to heretical tendencies. There's probably a part of the exam where they stick you in a waiting room and try to induce the time sense.]
Re: [time telling and Nirai and Rahal - paging Sasha]
Date: 2017-08-13 06:14 pm (UTC)It would be entertaining if lack of faction power is the real reason she's not Nirai, though. Sasha thinks she failed the entrance exam because she used up all her time explaining that the plane curve with the action of the simple group with 168 elements isn't smooth in characteristic seven, so all the multiple-choice options were wrong. But her records said she failed due to heretical tendencies. There's probably a part of the exam where they stick you in a waiting room and try to induce the time sense.]