Re: [Later]
[He keeps working that over a moment.] ... Depends on how it works...
Without one to try with...
[He worries at the odd fabric covering his fingers, considering.] Of course...
It could be anything, destruction, misuse, misinformation, manipulation. I'm sure you've noticed that neither of us are speaking out native languages... and yet if I think about it the words seem perfectly natural. Without it, it would take months to recreate a stable communication system...
It would throw off everything we and they do, the games, the system itself...
Of course... to change meanings too...
[He shakes his head. Then smiles.]
I have one piece more valuable the rest, I'd say it easily 'pays' for all of that... but for obvious reasons, I doubt I could act on, if I even wanted to.