- no he does not because he is not just acting distressed, right now, he is distressed, and in that state of distress, he has possibly given too much away already.

"Abadar doesn't strike me as the sort of god that will know.  I'll ask the Iomedans at some point."

Or 'forget' about it, because he doesn't want to remind anyone of the question, and 1 in 10 wouldn't actually make much of a difference.

Keltham asks a few more questions; and then indicates that he wants to rest for a quarter-hour, and then talk to somebody in Governance about the form of the next Project Lawful.

He's tired, maybe slightly dizzy from the time of night he's trying to do this, but there's no way he can go back to sleep and the story has informed him that he was correct about the time limit and everything needing to be set in motion as quickly as possible.  Probably there was no point in trying to hide it from him, since he'd guessed anyways.

- no he does not because he is not just acting distressed, right now, he is distressed, and in that state of distress, he has possibly given too much away already.

"Abadar doesn't strike me as the sort of god that will know.  Maybe I'll ask the Iomedans at some point."

Or 'forget' about it, because he doesn't want to remind anyone of the question, and 1 in 10 wouldn't actually make much of a difference.

Keltham asks a few more questions; and then indicates that he wants to rest for a quarter-hour, and then talk to somebody in Governance about the form of the next Project Lawful.

He's tired, maybe slightly dizzy from the time of night he's trying to do this, but there's no way he can go back to sleep and the story has informed him that he was correct about the time limit and everything needing to be set in motion as quickly as possible.  Probably there was no point in trying to hide it from him, since he'd guessed anyways.

- no he does not because he is not just acting distressed, right now, he is distressed, and in that state of distress, he has possibly given too much away already.

"Abadar doesn't strike me as the sort of god that will know.  Maybe I'll ask the Iomedans at some point."

Or 'forget' about it, because he doesn't want to remind anyone of the question, and 1 in 10 wouldn't actually make much of a difference.

Keltham asks a few more questions; and then indicates that he wants to rest for a quarter-hour, and then talk to somebody in Governance about the form of the next Project Lawful.

Keltham is tired, maybe slightly dizzy from the time of night he's trying to do this.  But there's no way he can go back to sleep and the story has informed him that he was correct about the time limit and everything needing to be set in motion as quickly as possible.  Probably there was no point in the story trying to hide it from him, since he'd guessed anyways.