That scene with gale i just had yesterday ...
And he only concludes that you should all be having fever and your sking should be turning grey ... yet nothing of it happenned, so logicaly your ceremorphosis is "abnormal" ... then you can ask him about what does that mean and Gale specificaly tells you that he dont know, but he FEARS that is only calm before storm ...
About Omeluum ...
By telling you that your tadpole is in stasis, he actualy confrims that your transforming proces was not "slowed down" but "paused"
that is the wery nature of the word stasis ...
He also tells you that he have litteraly zero experience with tadpoles like yours, but he would suspect that once the stasis would be removed ... your transformation would be instant, and therefore MUCH more painful.
//Edit:
The same talk you can have with Halsin ...
If i recall the sentence corectly i can paraphrase him: "The good news is, you have time ... the bad, i dont know how much."
It seems to me that game does both ...
ON one hand encourage plaeyer to rush ... and with same breath calms him to search for alternatives ...
Personaly i want to believe that this is perfect way to create just the confusion our characters would feel in such situation ... or in other words im trying to say that there is no explicit statements about your condition, since nobody (litteraly nobody) in whole EA really knows what exactly is happening to you.
Some suspects ... some have theories ... but nobody "knows" (well, maybe except the Hag, but she is not telling).
