"They generally are! There are quite lovely that way. Anyway, yes, I think my plan for our next steps would be to ask them to help organize the notes, and send you a section to start with, and then you can write to me, and tell me once you are ready to meet in person again. Anything else we ought talk over first?" 

"Do you have a general idea of how you want the book to be in - tone or length or anything?"

"Hmm. I confess I have not thought about it much. Obviously it will need to be much shorter than the total volume of notes I have produced during the process." 

"Yeah, I can summarize. Are we doing a history book or a technical record sort of thing...?"

"I...think closer to a history book, is what I had been envisioning? But, as I said, I have not considered this in enough depth to really have a detailed vision for it. Which do you think would be of greatest interest to future students?" 

"That's a good question! I guess it depends if they want to make a new species or not."

"Well, very few people embark on such a project, so I imagine most readers would be picking up the book out of general curiosity." 

"So probably more history but maybe I can have some bits on the technical stuff."

"Yes, that seems right. We can try to find a level of it that is interesting and not repetitive, and perhaps put somewhat more in the footnotes? ...I do not especially want this to be a detailed instruction manual on how anyone can make a species, to be honest, I think it - goes better, when doing this requires substantial proactiveness from someone." 

"Do you think proactiveness is particularly predictive of - care and ethics?"

"I - hmm. I think it correlates with having put a great deal of thought into a matter, and being highly invested in it?" 

"I guess that's true, if you could make a species in a weekend that would probably be worse than needing to stick with it for years."

"I think it would be more likely to end up very messy, in any case. As always, I am not sure any of us can predict how our choices will end up affecting world generations from now."

Aza nods. Presumably he doesn't mean in very broad terms like "the world will have gryphons in it".

"Is that all for now, then? I - think I am probably overdue for my next engagement." 

"Yeah, that's all for now, thanks!"

"All right! Thank you for bringing this to me!" Urtho pats her shoulder again, with an absently-fond expression, and then rushes out. 

Aza makes sure his hertasi know where to send the notes to her and departs as well.

Ma'ar Mindspeaks her that evening after his class. :So? Did you talk to Urtho?: 

:Yep! I'm going to write up his gryphon notes into a book:

:That's so neat!: Pause. :...Urtho confuses me. As a person. Do you understand what makes him upset or not about something?: 

:...what things have you seen him really upset about, as opposed to like... kind of irritated for a minute?:

:...I dunno that I have seen him actually upset or mad. I just - keep expecting him to be. I think when I try to predict what he's thinking from what he says: 

:There've been a few places where he could've been mad but he didn't actually get mad. He seems pretty mellow honestly. It might be an inattentiveness-supported mellow but still: Also she can profit from his flaws by writing his book for him, thereby causing there to be a book people will want to read that she wrote such that she can build on that basically guaranteed success.

:Huh. Is he just...not scared at ALL about people trying to hurt him? So he feels like it's - safe - to be that inattentive to everything?: