If it was anybody but Pilar that might have actually been a sufficient answer to what Asmodia really wanted to know there.
It's - not quite absolutely obvious, but it is one Abyss of an obvious guess, that Asmodia would not be in the gardens of Erecura if not for something somehow somewhere related to the project around Keltham.
"Because it hurt too much, or not enough?" Asmodia returns.