They should remember that one of the few purple sentences on her wall was 'Don't nudge Keltham into reviewing all his transcripts', but everybody at the table is going to get an emergency reminder and a prompt for a smooth-inconspicuous-subject-change*.

(*)  Two syllables in the Chelish dialect of Taldane.

They should remember that one of the few purple sentences on her wall was 'Don't nudge Keltham into reviewing all his transcripts', but everybody at the table is going to get an emergency reminder and a prompt for a smooth-inconspicuous-subject-change*.

(*)  Two syllables in the Chelish dialect of Taldane, but only by coincidence since this isn't a constructed-language.

Oh NO oh NO there's no way Korva could have seen that coming but 'Don't nudge Keltham into reviewing all his transcripts' is on the wall in PURPLE and now they need a subject change a SMOOTH subject change that doesn't make Keltham notice anything strange is going on, or somebody else talking, or failing that even an outright DISTRACTION quick somebody think of SOMETHING -

Oh NO oh NO there's no way Korva could have seen that coming but 'Don't nudge Keltham into reviewing all his transcripts' is on the wall in PURPLE and now they need a subject change a SMOOTH subject change that doesn't make Keltham notice anything strange is going on, or some other person coming by to interrupt, or failing that even an outright DISTRACTION quick somebody think of SOMETHING -