Oh, good. "It was getting too cold for me all by myself without you, so I reacted to this unsatisfactory state of reality by visualizing alternative and better ways reality could coherently be, and seeing if any of those alterative states of affairs were attainable by my actions, which led to me asking a security officer if there was any magic for staying warm."
(By a similar line of reasoning, Keltham was considering having sex with Ione if Carissa never returned and he felt sufficiently disappointed about that.)