"Hm," goes Shayera. "It's interesting, actually. They seem to have a lot of cultural anxiety about aliens, for a planet that's been so isolated from the intergalactic community."

Her gaze travels back to her translations. Languages interest her, in an idle sort of way. She's never been patient enough to really study linguistics - or any academic subject - seriously, but she's always been a quick study, something of a jack-of-all-trades. Earth has so many languages, with so many regional and cultural variations... in part, she supposes, because of the sheer land mass that can separate different segments of humanity.

"Seems a little bit like projection," she says, mostly just thinking out loud at this point. "Just look at their own global history. They invade each others' territories constantly. Maybe it's for the best that we approach them before they develop the technology necessary to approach us."

Spoken like someone who's been steeped in a culture with a policy of colonialist expansion - which, of course, she is.