"Okay, I hopefully won't have to suddenly go meta too often, but for purposes of rapidly learning how romance works around here, that was totally a probe to find out what kind of women I find physically attractive, right?  Where the fact that you can and will call any bluffs by transforming into that person forces me to be honest.  And on my side, I can choose between flattering you by listing women who look more like you, or teasing you by listing, say, Lrilatha?  Because that would - not that this is a problem or anything - that would definitely be Complicated Romance rather than Simple Romance in dath ilan."

"Okay, I hopefully won't have to suddenly go meta too often, but for purposes of rapidly learning how romance works around here, that was totally a probe to find out what kind of women I find physically attractive, right?  Where the fact that you can and will call any bluffs by transforming into that person forces me to be honest.  And on my side, I can choose between flattering you by listing women who look more like you, or teasing you by listing, say, Lrilatha?  Because that would - not that this is a problem or anything - that would definitely be Complicated Romance rather than Straightforward Romance in dath ilan."