“There is nothing comparable, in my own world. I've been about long enough to be confident that I would know.” And she draws on not only her own experience but the collective history of the Nahashi - another one of those secrets upon secrets that she doesn't share even with her own kind. (Privately, she thinks of most of them as lazy at best; but the cult she's been a part of since earliest childhood isn't evangelical. They can make their own mistakes as they like, and they are only her concern if the council makes them so.)