...okay, if he asks he'll be told that this happens a million times per day, if the Conspiracy did it on purpose then they're - trying to distract him - it rhymes with other things, other worrisome signs, like he noticed under Owl's Wisdom weeks ago -
He'll do what the Conspiracy predicted, he supposes, in the version where they predicted that Keltham would think that being distracted and asking questions because a child got hurt was supplying the Conspiracy with the wrong retrospective incentives.
Message: If possible, please carry out the rest of this operation while hurting as few children as possible, as little as possible.