Keltham can feel it like an echo of Owl's Wisdom, his explicit awareness, his inability not to look in that direction, towards his perception that everything he's heard about the afterlife has been very vague; and the explicit thought now completed, that this is probably not some random innocent mistake it's okay to ignore while he plunges ahead into everything else that's more tractable.

He wishes he knew whether or not the truth about afterlives was being deliberately hidden from him by the people here, or hidden by gods from living nongods in this afterlife-feeding economy, or if this is some safer issue where it'd be fine to just try really hard to pin people down on things and that would work fine at the expense of some social capital.

He doesn't want to pin Carissa down on it, anyways.  It's not a fun pre-date topic.

"Sorry if I shouldn't ask, by the way, but I can't tell if your mention of meeting somebody more important than Contessa Lrilatha was a prompt to ask you about that, or if it was deliberately vague to signal that I'm not supposed to ask."

Keltham can feel it like an echo of Owl's Wisdom, his explicit awareness, his inability not to look in that direction, towards his perception that everything he's heard about the afterlife has been very vague; and the explicit thought now completed, that this is probably not some random innocent mistake it's okay to ignore while he plunges ahead into everything else that's more tractable.

He wishes he knew whether or not the truth about afterlives was being deliberately hidden from him by the people here, or hidden by gods from living nongods in this afterlife-feeding economy, or if this is some safer issue where it'd be fine to just try really hard to pin people down on things and that would work fine at the expense of some social capital.

He doesn't want to pin Carissa down on it, anyways.  It's not a fun pre-date topic.

"Sorry if I shouldn't ask, by the way, but I can't tell if your mention of meeting somebody more important than Contessa Lrilatha was a prompt to ask you about that if I was interested, or if it was deliberately vague to signal that I'm not supposed to ask."

Keltham can feel it like an echo of Owl's Wisdom, his explicit awareness, his inability not to look in that direction, towards his perception that everything he's heard about the afterlife has been very vague; and the explicit thought now completed, that this is probably not some random innocent mistake it's okay to ignore while he plunges ahead into everything else that's more tractable.

He wishes he knew whether or not the truth about afterlives was being deliberately hidden from him by the people here, or hidden by gods from living nongods in this afterlife-feeding economy, or if this is some safer issue where it'd work fine to try harder to pin people down on things at the expense of some social capital.

He doesn't want to pin Carissa down on it, anyways.  It's not a fun pre-date topic.

"Sorry if I shouldn't ask, by the way, but I can't tell if your mention of meeting somebody more important than Contessa Lrilatha was a prompt to ask you about that if I was interested, or if it was deliberately vague to signal that I'm not supposed to ask."

Keltham can feel it like an echo of Owl's Wisdom, his explicit awareness, his inability not to look in that direction, towards his perception that everything he's heard about the afterlife has been very vague; and the explicit thought now completed, that this is probably not some random innocent mistake it's okay to ignore while he plunges ahead into everything else that's more tractable.

He wishes he knew whether or not the truth about afterlives was being deliberately hidden from him by the people here, or hidden by gods from living nongods in this afterlife-feeding economy, or if this is some safer issue where it'd work fine to try harder to pin people down on details at the expense of some social capital.

He doesn't want to pin Carissa down on it, anyways.  It's not a fun pre-date topic.

"Sorry if I shouldn't ask, by the way, but I can't tell if your mention of meeting somebody more important than Contessa Lrilatha was a prompt to ask you about that if I was interested, or if it was deliberately vague to signal that I'm not supposed to ask."