I figured. [a little-- wry, maybe, more than amused; he presumes she means village bonds aren't strange, they are natural] That's how a lot of people think where I'm from, too.

But we're not quite the same as a village, in Luceti, are we? In some ways, maybe-- but there's no one leader, here. No culture. No elders. No shared fate.

So how could there be one understanding of "unselfish"? [How could it be any one person's responsibility to... Ginko pauses. Reconsiders.]

[locked]

[he locks the entry, not so much for her sake as for his; there are some people who don't need to hear what he might say after this]

It sounded like-- you were speaking for yourself.