A means to show our true colors, perhaps? If the intent was honesty, then it's obviously failed.

[But also... why would it matter? Most people put up a facade. She'd said it herself to Hwylryn when he'd pressed her (though, ironically, she had been honest then): Most people here are surely hiding something.]

The outcomes of the two carnivals we recall were different. We've been asked to bare our souls and romp with animals. Surely people have spoken with Ish separately even if they can't remember it.

... It can't be something someone said to him, can it?