"Interesting!  Yes, that sounds approximately like the type of novel-to-us innovation I might expect to be found in such a place.  What is the least expected concept that Earth has invented which dath ilan ought to import?"

[You mean the one that would have taken us the longest time to figure out, and would provoke the most disbelief from dath ilani if it wasn't explained very carefully?]

"Of course!"  Absent exerting the will to optimize over Isabella, it is not improper to let himself be steered by the first virtue of Curiosity.  "Naturally, I shall quite restrain any such reaction on my own part."

[Well, it certainly isn't hard to think of the one issue that caused Isabella to win the largest number of you-were-right-all-along points off of me.  And it's definitely the insight that's going to have all of dath ilan kicking itself the hardest, when we realized how much we missed, and how hard we missed it; and how our own concept of the Light probably caused a huge number of individuals to all shut down something important inside themselves as soon as they started to see it, because it didn't look like they thought something bright should look.  But I am not going to try to explain BDSM while this entire conversation is being routed through my mother.  Isabella, can we actually take that minute and get a transmission lock on Keeper Derrin now -]