[Her amusement fades quickly as the discussion is not destined to end quickly. It's a painful topic, but Saya refuses to let this guy see even more of her than he already has.] Something like that.
People who study us think it ensures our species only ever has two Queens. Or something like that. [If they were awake more often than for a few years every three decades, a great many hatchlings could be the result. The dry way they'd laid out their "theories" in Joel's Diary, speculating on her life as if it were a science project, made her almost ill.]