Swamped

This municipal priesthood sounds fascinating. Pump him about duties and what it's like in the priesthood, dropping hints that you are a fellow scholar of language and might be a candidate for service.

Do you expect to have much free time when the Master's work is complete? To what extent is scholarship a duty of your priesthood? What aptitudes or conditions define members' ability to move higher in the order? Can outsiders join your order?

And yeah, might as well pull out the delivery, but keep the symbol concealed until your curiosity about the priesthood is satisfied.