Keltham awakes with his mind feeling numb, dissociated, distantly sad.
He looks at the Splendour headband, which he did manage to take off last night before asking for the Sleep spell.
Keltham decides - not to put it on, just yet, for a while.
There's a saying out of dath ilan, "You can face life without drugs, but there's often no point in trying." In context, it doesn't have exactly the import that the bare words sound like, because it's an instance of a proverb-template about how "You can X without Y, but there's often no point in trying." That proverb-template in turn is intimately paired by rhyme and prosody to a successor saying, about how you probably should try at all, like once or twice, just be willing to give up if it turns out there's no point?
Keltham is going to try not to get addicted to Splendour immediately and in the middle of a major life crisis.
He prays. He asks for two Comprehend Languages in case he needs them for reading books in other languages. He asks for two truthspells. He keeps his Owl's Wisdom. He leaves the rest of his list blank. If his god is back in touch with him, his god should be able to fill the list as his god sees fit.