"Yes. It should be safe for you to say whatever you like."

"Were all the secrecy oaths you hold yourself to, which may be the empty set, phrased non-stupidly?"

"Yes."

"Are we safe here from third-party interference with communication?"

Griffie smiles at the question…

…but is less happy about the answer ey gives. "No! No, we are not!"

"How the flamingnoodles does that work if we're not being observed?"

"Good question!"

"Does this make people forget things."

"Yes."

"Have I forgotten some of the answers you gave me."

"Probably. I don't have a transcript you wrote to check."

"Are you having me ask you these questions because it's easier to make me forget an answer I heard than a question I asked."

"Yes."

"Do I need to leave myself reminders?"

"Unlikely." (Nothing Griffie's seen suggests this is the case, but ey could be outright missing stuff still, and ey doesn't want to rule it out.)

"You do think me asking you these questions is a good idea, just to confirm?"

"Yes."

"Irret, what did you get from my conversation with Griffith?"

"Not much? Focusing is hard while I'm healing and I just did a lot and you didn't ask me to this time."

That actually makes a lot of sense. If he was so brain-damaged that he couldn't understand the kinds of basic theory he just tried to explain, he'd probably have focus trouble too.

"Why do you think the Upper Planes's culture can't adequately handle infohazards?"

Griffie indicates a door. "Irret, that should be keyed to you. Please go."

Irret goes.

Griffie turns to Keltham. "There is a hostile and powerful infohazard-using species which specifically has the ability to cause societies to develop incorrect beliefs about them."