Ama giggles, at his complaints, and concerns about Avina. "I've also skimmed the history of what happened to that people... even if she wasn't distinctly female, before the upgrade, she spent sixty years along, being tinkered on by a male, without anyone else to talk to him. Of<em>course</em>she ended up female. And don't worry about him. I actually had a formal meeting with him, back in Faerie, a few weeks ago; of course, I only got the report secondhand, because, honestly, all that pomp and circumstance irritates me, but you're not alone. And you<em>do</em>get involved in things. For instance, as you said, that island had been floating along, peacefully, not interfering with anything for thousands of years, and you went and got involved. So, really, this<em>is</em>your fault."