Keltham tries for his best smile. "Thanks," he says uselessly. He draws a pentagram in the air, to show he got that part.
He's very rapidly trying to invent an art form of playing inside counterfactuals that shouldn't exist, offensively, where dath ilan teaches only arts that improve defense more than offense. Given how much people complain about illusion of transparency even when people are trying to communicate, Keltham's actual thoughts as a complete outsider to this system may in fact be fully opaque, given the number of possibilities from her standpoint that she doesn't know how to rule out. But if not, if he's less safe than that, maybe it will help that he tossed her one of his lesser suspicions, as a distractor from some of his larger suspicions. Because Keltham was not confident of his ability to completely conceal, in his body language and attitude and pauses to think, the fact that he has become suspicious, from -
Did he actually forget to ask her name this whole time? "Keltham," he says, tagging himself again, and then looks at her.