Hobart's thoughts raced. The first thing he considered was that when he had met Bernadette before, they had merely brushed past each other. It was impossible for Bernadette to have discovered much information about him.
She must have learned of the Creator's existence through some other channel.
Hobart immediately formed a related line of thought: the Hidden Sage and the Knowledge Wilderness most likely both knew of the Creator's existence.
This had to start with when he went to Tingen City and saved Old Neil.
The Ritual Old Neil had performed back then was most likely a way for the Hidden Sage to search for the Knowledge Wilderness, or perhaps a form of probing.
Hobart remembered that the Hidden Sage seemed to be a mysterious existence formed from the activation of the Hermit pathway's Uniqueness. Meanwhile, based on Hobart's observations, the Knowledge Wilderness differed from other Sefirah in that it seemed to possess a certain degree of intelligence as well.
Yes, intelligence. Hobart felt that term was particularly apt; it gave him a feeling similar to artificial intelligence.
The Creator had appeared during Old Neil's Ritual and disrupted its progress. The Hidden Sage should have been able to "hear" the Creator's Honorific Name Klein had recited.
Furthermore, the Hidden Sage had a habit of imparting knowledge to Extraordinary of the same Sequence. Bernadette was already Sequence 3, so she had some means of avoiding Knowledge Pursues People, or perhaps the knowledge imparted by the Hidden Sage could no longer affect her much.
Hobart guessed that Bernadette might even have developed a habit of actively listening. After all, much of the knowledge imparted by the Hidden Sage was extremely cutting-edge Mysticism Knowledge.
Perhaps Bernadette had inadvertently heard information concerning the Creator.
Or perhaps the channel through which she learned that information