"Thanks for taking care of me!" Thellim says to the doorperson. Hopefully she didn't give off any wrong or just misleading social cues by saying that? Then Thellim follows slightly behind Isabella, a natural optimization for following somebody else when you're not sure of the forward path you're taking. Along the way, she absentmindedly brushes her long hair back over her shoulder.
"Sorry," Thellim continues the previous conversation, "I must have missed it when you first said meta-culture instead of monoculture - I don't think it's a standard word in the vocabulary I was given. But I think I rather like it? Meta-culture is exactly what we try to have. Different ideas, one language; people buy what they want, in one currency and banking system; experimental regions try different things and argue about the meanings of the outcomes, but they report their likelihood functions with respect to the same hypothesis spaces for ease of multiplication."