Asmodia is trying to predict Keltham's questions before he asks them, and she's failing, and only the fact that Carissa Sevar has assumed full command, steering, and responsibility is preventing Asmodia from going into a complete state of panic. Well. A more complete state of panic.
He's - she can only get part of it, the process he's using, they should have gotten in an eighth-circle for this, Detect Thoughts would be so useful right now - or not if his thoughts are just leaping directly there, Law become intuition without words - but Keltham is thinking - he's probing questions of 'why is it like that' and he thinks in, concentrations of money? Concentrations of power? Any time you point out a concentration to him, he asks why, because it's not concentrated like that in Civilization, or maybe he just expects concentrated anything to be concentrated for a reason?