"Oh, wow, there are people who gain arousal points from being tickled?  Because I am pretty sure I wouldn't, though I suppose we could very briefly try."

"Oh, wow, there are people who gain arousal points from being tickled?  Because I am pretty sure I wouldn't, though I suppose we could very briefly try."

Keltham decides not to say, because it would be another sad thing, that unless there's a secret population of dath ilani who do gain arousal from being tickled, a hypothetical tickling machine is not something you would be allowed to sell even in a Shop of Ill-Advised Consumer Goods.

"Oh, wow, there are people who gain arousal points from being tickled?  Because I am pretty sure I wouldn't, though I suppose we could very briefly try."

Keltham decides not to say, because it would be another sad thing, that unless there's a secret population of dath ilani who do gain arousal from being tickled, a hypothetical tickling machine is not something you would be allowed to sell even in a Shop of Ill-Advised Consumer Goods.  Well, maybe if you put intrinsic surveillance technology into it and only let people use it on themselves so they could practice being way too mentally disciplined.

"Oh, wow, there are people who gain arousal points from being tickled?  Because I am pretty sure I wouldn't, though I suppose we could very briefly try."

Keltham decides not to say, because it would be another sad thing, that unless there's a secret population of dath ilani who do gain arousal from being tickled, a torture machine is not something you would be allowed to sell even in a Shop of Ill-Advised Consumer Goods.  Well, maybe if you put intrinsic surveillance technology into it and only let people use it on themselves so they could practice being way too mentally disciplined.

"Oh, wow, there are people who gain arousal points from being tickled?  Because I am pretty sure I wouldn't, though I suppose we could very briefly try."

Keltham decides not to say, because it would be another sad thing, that unless there's a secret population of dath ilani who do gain arousal from being tickled, a torture machine is not something you would be allowed to sell even in a Shop of Ill-Advised Consumer Goods.  Well, maybe if you put intrinsic surveillance technology into it and only let people use it on themselves so they could practice being way too mentally disciplined.  Or maybe the Keepers have some incredibly unpleasant technology hidden for extremely unlikely emergencies.