"Keltham requesting all of his transcripts, or worse, somehow finding out about magical memory aids and demanding one of those, is one of my enduring nightmares about how this Project ends. It should probably be in black on the wall, that we were too visibly making up alterCheliax as we went along, if Keltham could actually review all the dialog from them and compare it to the more complete-sounding world from now."
"Ione's transcript is one of the worst ones from that perspective. We are fundamentally hoping just that Keltham doesn't remember it well enough. Keltham asks how much trouble she's in, if the Chelish government finds out about her. She doesn't say she got truthspelled by Security already. She says she doesn't know. It's halfway between red and black, we can maybe gloss that, if Keltham's memory is good enough, but Ione is just not acting like someone from alterCheliax."
"And Keltham is going to remember that Ione was too scared to tell anyone else she was a Nethysian. That - has to be a mistake, Ione made, somehow, because here she is now in alterCheliax doing great about that, so why was she so scared before then -"
"If Keltham wasn't already asking to check in on Ione, I'd tell Ione to fuck off. If she hadn't already pledged herself to Keltham, I'd tell her to tell Keltham to fuck off. Failing both of those, I'm not sure what our good options are here. I hope Sala has thought about this for longer and has something amazing to propose."