Roland nods, filing the explanation away anyway. He goes over it in his head, and finds he has no questions. Almost certainly there's more to all this than he knows, maybe more than he ever will, but for the moment he feels like he does understand the basics. "You're very good at this. Translating your culture into the words of another."

It's an absent observation, though, and he continues without really waiting for a reply. "You've 'mixed quadrants' before, so that must not be the problem." He looks down at their linked hands and readjusts them, slipping his callused palm over the back of Signless' hand. "It sounds like you understand human romance pretty well, but maybe we'd better make sure. Maybe even human friendship, because what I feel for you..." He thinks on it a moment, then gives a quick shrug and a frustrated grunt. "Do you have any questions? I don't know what you've learned from others already."