Kelson will do amazing feats in order to convince himself that they are not gods. " It sounds to me like they're a very different kind of people. That their needs are so different from ours they do not understand what a human needs to live and thrive."

He looked around at the feast. "They do seem to be trying though. They can do it. Perhaps it is not that they do not understand, but that they do not want to provide it. "

As for asking for something, he could. He didn't want anything in particular but he need need to make contact with Hope or Fear. Kelson believed in going to the top to get answers.