"Correct."

"Is there a specific failure you're thinking of here."

"You must realize that your pattern of question-non-answering is a terrible way to avoid leaking information, right?"

"Yes."

Before the sentence "So why are you doing it!?" makes its way to Keltham's mouth, he has a hypothesis. He does not like the hypothesis.

"Are we being observed."

"By the Goddess of Good Tools, Aiyuna, and the people in this room, probably. By anything else … We are effectively betting a lot of lives on 'no', and we don't do that recklessly. We're under deity-level wards."

"So you think it should be safe for me to say whatever I like."

"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?"