"Subject matter too grim, change topic."
Of course his mind goes on thinking anyways. Is Carissa implying that Kuthites harder to interrogate because Chelish interrogation tries to use pain as an interrogation tool?
Probably.
Keltham adds it to a list of things that are actually worrying - not so much Conspiracy theory, why would she say that on the Conspiracy - as the possibility that there's some final and deepest piece of Golarion Bad News that requires him to build Civilization here only far away from every existing government in this world, and play that hand only once he is ready to defeat them all in open military battle.
...he'd rather not talk about that, look in that direction, right now. If that final grimdark realization comes, it will come at the point where all of his relationships that he wants to advance have advanced far enough for those women to follow him.</eroLARP-reasoning>