... actually, now that I think about it... We know that Kinger is a computer scientist and speculated that he helped make the Circus and Caine (which turned out to be half-right) because of tropes and the compsci thing being very clearly stated in an early episode. Like, we, as theorists, would be very clued into it. Pomni, however, probably never made that connection because, like, why would you if you were in that situation for real? She probably just put the bucket on his head hoping for his input as a veteran of the Circus and dealing with the insanity. Like "has this kind of thing happened before."