What Serini doesn't know

[Mic_128]

What I'm wondering is what she does know that she hasn't revealed. Remember the conversation at the end of the last book:

Serini: "I guess we're finally doing this, huh? Fun while it lasted, right?"
Nameless Minion: "What was, Boss?"
Serini: "Existing."

That exchange is hard to square with her explanations to Lien and O-Chul. The way she tells it to them, she is trying to preserve existence--her own as much as anyone else's. I suppose you could argue she expects to be killed by Xykon, but then what does "we're finally doing this" mean?

"Finally intervening" is my guess. Things were fine before, however she feels she has to intervene now, because she believes the Paladins will destroy the gate.

[KorvinStarmast]

in hindsight it would have just been Serini making a sardonic joke.

That's where I'll lay the notional five dollar bet in Vegas.

Haley: "You know nothing, Serini Toormuck."

Works doubly well since Haley has red hair.

[Dr.Zero]

About the happiness of the goblinoids, I suppose we should treat them as everyone else.

And, as a rule of thumb, no one is a better judge of his own happiness than himself.

They seemed very excited and happy to go to stomp Azurites, they managed to do so, so, according to their own opinion -or at least the opinion showed to us while they were marching toward Azure City- they should be happier now than before.