The smallest of smirks flickers like a shadow across the face of the Moros. Even so he takes his time to formulate his response either lost in thought or considering his choice carefully. ''You praise the art of innovation, but how can you innovate if you lack knowledge of what already exists.'' It risks wasting so much effort. ''It would not be the first time western scholars have invented or discovered something only to find themselves actually hundreds of years behind the curve.'' And then still. ''And is not the spirit of innovation against the current by definition? The need to push in directions society is not already looking at or exploring?'' Come now Libertine at the very least stick to your guns.

These are arguments he had heard before. And ones that to someone who knew the rules of reality were not so, held little sway. ''Is it advancing if it was so before it was put on paper? and is not a faux pas to say we understand something even as more is learnt about it? to set something in stone.'' Oh I see the irony there. ''Like that is short sighted surely. When only so recently it has been shown that all there is to know is not known.'' To reinforce the lie like that is nothing short of the anthesis to what any good mage knows to be elsewise. ''Would you like to know a interesting titbit on a related but perpendicular note?'' Something Americans might not appreciate but is quite curious none the less.