He'll just hold her for a while, then.

The thought occurs to him that among the solutions he could apply here, given infinite time, would be to write a fictional book containing a Civilizational hero as a viewpoint character, so people could pick up, the rhythm of Civilization's thought processes, have that rhythm inside them as a potential replacement, before they started learning things that might risk doing internal damage.  Not the best use of his time as it stands.  Probably also the result of the well-known Rationalizing Reasons To Write A Book Bias to which he is no more immune than any other dath ilani.  Maybe if he ran out literally all of his better ideas over the course of twenty-six years he'd eventually resort to that one because at least books are fun to write.

"Oh," Keltham says after an interval of quiet.  "Small bit of progress... actually, first, does anything awful happpen inside your mind, if Yaisa got something nice from me before you did, and you probably won't get to have it for a while?  Though Yaisa said she intended to spread the word, so you'll probably hear about it at some point, unless you tell me to tell Yaisa to label the information a Carissa infohazard as it spreads."

He'll just hold her for a while, then.

The thought occurs to him that among the solutions he could apply here, given infinite time, would be to write a fictional book containing a Civilizational hero as a viewpoint character, so people could pick up, the rhythm of Civilization's thought processes, have that rhythm inside them as a potential replacement, before they started learning things that might risk doing internal damage.  Not the best use of his time as it stands.  Probably also the result of the well-known Rationalizing Reasons To Write A Book Bias to which he is no more immune than any other dath ilani.  Maybe if he ran out literally all of his better ideas over the course of twenty-six years he'd eventually resort to that one because at least books are fun to write.

"Oh," Keltham says after an interval of quiet.  "Small bit of progress... actually, first, does anything awful happpen inside your mind, if Yaisa got something nice from me before you did, and you probably can't have it for a while?  Though Yaisa said she intended to spread the word, so you'll probably hear about it at some point, unless you tell me to tell Yaisa to label the information a Carissa infohazard as it spreads."

He'll just hold her for a while, then.

The thought occurs to him that among the solutions he could apply here, given infinite time, would be to write a fictional book containing a Civilizational hero as a viewpoint character.  So people could pick up, the rhythm of Civilization's thought processes, have that positive vision inside them as a potential replacement, before they started learning things that might risk doing internal damage.  Not the best use of his time as it stands.  Probably also the result of the well-known Rationalizing Reasons To Write A Book Bias to which he is no more immune than any other dath ilani.  Maybe if he ran out literally all of his better ideas over the course of twenty-six years he'd eventually resort to that one because at least books are fun to write.

"Oh," Keltham says after an interval of quiet.  "Small bit of progress... actually, first, does anything awful happen inside your mind, if Yaisa got something nice from me before you did, and you probably can't have it for a while?  Though Yaisa said she intended to spread the word, so you'll probably hear about it at some point, unless you tell me to tell Yaisa to label the information a Carissa infohazard as it spreads."