Eloise shifted uncomfortably in her seat, wishing she had an easy answer for Wayne's problem. He was right that he couldn't ask what the consequences would be -- that sort of question would be okay when he first started working at the Department of Mysteries, but now it would just sound suspicious. "Well, you can't be the first one to talk about something you shouldn't, right?" she reasoned. "Have you ever heard any stories about something like this?"
Maybe that was a bad thing to say. Surely if they told these sort of stories during Unspeakable training or whatever, they wouldn't tell the stories where it wasn't a big deal and the guy didn't really get in trouble. They'd tell the stories where the guy got fired, so you'd be afraid to talk about work, ever, to anybody.
Eloise sighed and took a sip of her tea, which was just barely cool enough to drink.