"- I mean when do they get pregnant."

"When they have sex."

" - Amentans get pregnant only in springtime."

"Oh. Humans don't have that."

"Huh. If we live near the equator then we don't have that, but people dislike it, it feels wrong."

"Huh."

This book is about how bills become law - "It's correct as far as the formal steps go, there are probably informal ones, you'd really have to ask a blue -" and this one about animals - "I haven't much to add, we don't oversimplify animals that much -" and this one about ways they have tried to get around being out of space. They have built places to live on the moon and underwater and tried ones in the sky but it didn't work well.

Many Amentan animals are similar but not that similar to the ones on her world that she knows of. "Wow - the moon -"

"It was so hard! When we figure out how to season the moon so many people will want to live there but we haven't got that yet."

"I didn't even know the moon was a - thing."

He pulls up a picture on the television to show how a moon goes around the world like so and the way they reflect light results from this like so.

"Wow. I wonder how long it would have taken us to find out all this stuff."

"Your technology matches ours maybe five hundred of our years ago. But magic will probably change it - and people who live forever will certainly change it -"

"Magic is definitely changing things."

"If you like there are lots of scientists who want to go to your world and learn about the people and learn the languages and get samples and pictures, and they could teach everything we know. Or at least every peacetime thing we know."

"...um."

"Hmm?"

"My world is not very nice in some ways and I am concerned people would... learn the wrong things."

" - you could pick ones who are all right not coming home, if you can give them safe lives there."

"...I'm not sure how that would help."

"We could teach your world things to make it nicer without anyone here learning whatever you don't want us to learn."

"That... only might be good."

"Are you worried it'd start wars?"

"A little but not mostly."

"Hmm."