He does wonder what they've been doing with it all. It's the 'now' that makes him curious. Not that it's his business, though, so he doesn't quite ask.

"...We'll discuss it when it comes to it." It is a worry. The first-hand account of a lifetime in a kingdom with such lacking records is... he fears it might be worth more than he has. And that's not accounting for the trouble of recounting it all, which is not something he's ever thought to consider.

"Will you be ready to continue, if that's the case? I'd like to get to the bottom of something."