"I am trying to take into account your non-repairable nature.  It is possible that, the concept being such a foreign one, I am not trying hard enough.  I haven't been asking you for instruction on how to try harder, because it is in fact something I'd expect you to plainly not know, given your ignorance of all principles of economicmagic."

"It occurs to me, saying as much, that I should also describe in more detail the implications of the test now performed: it is more characteristic of something that might be done to you rather than something you are.  If you cut the hair of an intrinsically magical being, it would retain whatever magical properties it had and be useful perhaps in constructing enchanted items.  If I cast a spell to protect myself against ontologically-simple fire, and visited the continuum of ontologically-simple fire, my hair would not burn there; but upon being cut from my head, the severed hairs would burn."

"Since your language does not have any word for 'god', the obvious sort of being who might be causally-responsible here, could not be a sort of potentially causally-responsible force on the dath ilan side of things.  Do you know of anything other than 'gods' which, might, from your side of reality, have a tendency to do such a thing to you?"

"I am trying to take into account your non-repairable nature.  It is possible that, the concept being such a foreign one, I am not trying hard enough.  I haven't been asking you for instruction on how to try harder, because it is in fact something I'd expect you to plainly not know, given your ignorance of all principles of economicmagic."

"It occurs to me, saying as much, that I should also describe in more detail the implications of the test recently performed: a field with that property is more characteristic of something that might be done to you rather than something you are.  If you cut the hair of an intrinsically magical being, it would retain whatever magical properties it had and be useful perhaps in constructing enchanted items.  If I cast a spell to protect myself against ontologically-simple fire, and visited the continuum of ontologically-simple fire, my hair would not burn there; but upon being cut from my head, the severed hairs would burn."

"Since your language does not have any word for 'god', the obvious sort of being who might be causally-responsible here, could not be a sort of potentially causally-responsible force on the dath ilan side of things.  Do you know of anything other than 'gods' which, might, from your side of reality, have a tendency to do such a thing to you?"

"I am trying to take into account your non-repairable nature.  It is possible that, the concept being such a foreign one, I am not trying hard enough.  I haven't been asking you for instruction on how to try harder, because it is in fact something I'd expect you to plainly not know, given your ignorance of all principles of economicmagic."

"It occurs to me, saying as much, that I should also describe in more detail the implications of the test recently performed: a field with that property is more characteristic of something that might be done to you rather than something you are.  If you cut the hair of an intrinsically magical being, it would retain whatever magical properties it had and be useful perhaps in constructing enchanted items.  If I cast a spell to protect myself against ontologically-simple fire, and visited the continuum of ontologically-simple fire, my hair would not burn there; but upon being cut from my head, the severed hairs would burn."

"Since your language does not have any word for 'god', the obvious sort of being who might be causally-responsible here, could not be a sort of potentially causally-responsible force on the dath ilan side of things.  Do you know of anything other than 'gods' which might, from your side of reality, have a reason to do such a thing to you?"