And so, Lan listened, as best she could, not just to the sound of her voice, but to everything that Shizuka Satomi said. No, she couldn’t understand all of it. In fact, most of her words still did not make sense. But she listened.
Lan is kind of like a scientist--an anthropologist--cataloging and observing but through her own lens of understanding, so she's not truly *seeing*, *listening*, or *understanding*. Its like observing different animal species and declaring them unintelligent because of the standards in which they're being measured against. I'm thinking of the elephant tool study.
