Keltham is sufficiently relaxed that he'll take a moment to see if Carissa does anything about this without him having to speak.

Yep, she can get the door. She - wasn't particularly expecting an answer that fast. 

"Ah," says a young-looking palace page-boy who wouldn't be out of place in Taldor and would never actually be seen in Cheliax, sounding audibly sort of stuttery, with annoyingly long pauses between stutters, "ah, um - are you, uh, are you, Sevar, I have, uh, a message, for, ah, uh, Keltham?"

While he stutters, rapid messages delivered by magic where Keltham can't hear:

Queen's transcript is ready for Sevar.

Asmodeus has given them a directive to move Keltham to a new location, one that will somehow be more protected from divine interference than even the palace, as soon as Aspexia can get a new Forbiddance spell and put that up tomorrow at dawn.  They're not to spare any expense, this time; Cheliax is suddenly wealthier than expected, for reasons to be described later.

The anti-interference divine protection should prevent any more oracles from being created, even if someone on site isn't soul-sold.

Maillol is still recovering.  Sevar's input is requested in Maillol's place about the new project setup.  Possibly Keltham's input should be solicited too?

What do they tell Keltham, what message does the page have for Keltham?  Some lies seem required and Sevar is the only one who can authorize them.

- okay. Most urgent question is what to tell Keltham. ...they're setting up a new project site, and want his input into anything it'd be particularly useful for it to have. If he asks for an explanation, the damage to the villa was more extensive than expected. "Yes, Keltham's here. I can take a message, or depart, if it's secret."

"I, ah, uh," the page-boy audibly pulls himself together.  "Damage to the villa, ah, more extensive than expected," he recites.  "New project site, uh, being set up?  Moving tomorrow at dawn.  Does Keltham have, uh, input, on anything particularly useful to have, there."

Whiteboards, Keltham wants to yell immediately, but that word does not actually exist in Taldane.  Besides, he can use his own Prestidigitation now.

"Is there a meeting I should be at?" Keltham calls.

They'd obviously have to set up a fake meeting for him, and echo information to and from the real meeting, but resources are available to do that if Sevar thinks they should.

They're just passing memos around since half the people involved in the decision process are also essential for the war effort. He could meet with someone in Acquisitions if he wants, though.

"Uh, it's mostly, uh, paper going back and forth, because of, uh, the war, and deciders being too busy, but there's still, uh, I was told, uh, you can talk to Acquisitions if it's not a paper thing?"

Keltham pulls himself up to a sitting position in bed, thereby ending the massage; this sufficiently increases the probability that he should meet with Isidre again, before leaving the palace tomorrow, that he should conserve his ero energy for having a callable libido while he does that.  "I've got additional questions but it doesn't sound like you've got additional answers, like why this is a tomorrow-at-dawn thing," is the palace considered not-safe.  "I will think about what we need, and probably go talk to Acquisitions in the likely event that this isn't a piece-of-paper issue.  Who do I go to in Acquisitions, if you were told that?"

The page names a random name, which can readily be allocated to whoever plays that role.

How/when does Sevar want the Queen's transcript of Keltham, for her to review?

Security has decided to do additional screening of project involved people for not being secret Kuthite agents. Then Carissa can be absent for her further screening and can get the review of the transcript done, as well as her punishment, which she expects she should take at the palace because Abrogail might want to watch.

Security policy would usually call for Sevar being escorted off as soon as she was told about the Security review, should they lie about that part or should Sevar be immediately escorted out after this?

They should not lie about that but they don't have to tell her now, it might be convenient to tell her in ten minutes after she's gotten Keltham's reaction to the relocation.

Affirm, somebody will check back in on you in 10.

"Anything else?"

"That's, uh, it."  The stuttery page departs.

Weird speech patterns, huh.  You wouldn't think somebody like that would find their comparative advantage running messages.  Maybe he was scared for some reason... well, if it's something bad they're doing, you wouldn't send somebody visibly scared of it, so probably it's just the whole godwar followed by mortalwar.

...maybe that's just what talking sounds like at Intelligence 10.  Keltham has never actually met anyone with Intelligence 10.

"Okay, apparently we've suddenly got to figure out all of our project infrastructure wishlist," Keltham says.  "Better classroom setup, breakout rooms, larger white writing surfaces would be nice even if Prestidigitation, library for reference books as we can get them, material experimentation laboratory for melting metals, biological laboratory where we keep the stocks of mice, whatever you do for a magical laboratory, regular so-you-want-to-be-a-wizard training setup for me, am I missing anything."

"Do you want a cuddleroom separate from your bedroom? Do you want a bedroom like this one? Plumbing? Hot water?"

"...yes to all of those important things."

"There shall furthermore be, if at all possible, plumbing and hot water for my Carissa; and, predicting my future self's desires, for other people who might end up with a Keltham possessive adjective in front of their names."

"It counts as flirting, by local rules, if you let it be known the criteria was as such. Nothing wrong with that, just, so you know. Hmm. Do you want the cuddleroom stocked like would be conventional or should it start out empty, to avoid spoilers."

"Storage closet to which you've got the key, you take things out of the closet as I figure them out?"

"And you know, considering the overall situation, I am not really concerned about it being overly fast relationship escalation if everyone in my research harem gets the simultaneous information that I might be interested in dating some of them."

Keltham feeling possessive of his presents from Cheliax is a good thing. "Should they bother stocking the library with the kinds of books we normally put in libraries or are those bad enough to be useless and you'd rather start with empty shelves and fill them out with specific things we specifically want?"

"Unsure.  Thinking.  Reference books, those meant to teach subjects, we should have no matter how terrible they are.  For the more relaxed section, I think we at least start with some books that research haremettes enjoy reading, or they state their personal favorites and those get added to the library for others to read, maybe.  I don't think I need any extraneous terrible books thrown in on top of that.  Relaxed library section isn't as urgent as the reference section."

"Do we need to tell them, like, kitchens and dining rooms must exist somewhere, I'm assuming that sort of thing gets handled well without our input but I check that assumption."