"As you say."

"The thought of my trying to enslave this you feels like --"  Stupid impoverished vocabulary.  "-- trying to step on air without Air Walk.  I am not bothered by the thought of someone else doing it, so it is not good feelings toward you."  Not that he could admit it to himself, even now, if there were any feelings there.  "It's that I don't think you would have any fun shapes in your own mind.  Words missing."

"As you say."

"The thought of my trying to enslave this you feels like --"  Stupid impoverished vocabulary.  "-- trying to step on air without Air Walk.  I am not bothered by the thought of someone else doing it, so it is not good feelings toward you."  Not that he could admit it to himself, even now, if there were any feelings there.  "It's that I don't think you would have any fun shapes in your own mind.  Words missing."

"For you to try to enslave me is not the way of dath ilan, I think.  It is not the way of Mariona.  Is it your way?"  He doesn't seem visibly bothered by the thought, but then it wouldn't be visible either way.