You have only yourself to blame for not asking Cultural Adaptation about this earlier. You should have realized that Cultural Adaptation (dath ilan) was so much more Lawful and wise than yourself as to stand in the same sort of superior relationship to you as Rugatonn or Gorthoklek.
(Esta cannot fully tell, at this point, which inner voice is actually Cultural Adaptation and which is just his model of Cultural Adaptation, but this particular sentence is delivered by the latter.)