"Haven't actually noticed that internal phenomenon with any other women before.  I suppose it requires respecting somebody a lot, inflicting sexy pain on her, and then having her... offer herself up to me like, like... yeah, my language doesn't have a word for it.  And here I thought I was just aromantic, ha ha.  I wonder if Civilization has a secret effort underway to cure people like me out of existence, or just try to make sure we have fewer kids, so our descendants won't be running around needing something that dath ilan can never give us."

"Haven't actually noticed that internal phenomenon with any other women before.  I suppose it requires respecting somebody to some noticeable degree, inflicting sexy pain on her, and then having her... offer herself up to me like, like... yeah, my language doesn't have a word for it.  And here I thought I was just aromantic, ha ha.  I wonder if Civilization has a secret effort underway to cure people like me out of existence, or just try to make sure we have fewer kids, so our descendants won't be running around needing something that dath ilan can never give us."