Keltham goes back to his bedroom, tired, not able yet to sleep.
He - should probably go ahead and think of things, now, he is getting past the point where he feels like he can navigate sensibly while avoiding thinking in words. Keltham is past the Commune and will not use that spell with Abadar again, which was a danger point; he's had the conversation with Merenre, which hopefully goes some way towards Governance arriving at the desired wrong explanations for things -
- he can't not think in words, any more, this is too tiring; and also once he starts talking to foreign delegates tomorrow, he will actually lose some of his ability to back up if he makes a mistake. Everything he's told Governance so far could be backed out tomorrow morning; if Keltham starts writing contracts he can no longer do that.
It's time to think explicitly. Was arguably already time to think before this, right after the Commune. Arguably Keltham should have done the Commune earlier - the trouble with not thinking in words is that then you can't be very strategic, including about when it's time to start thinking in words again.