[The low baritone rumble that starts up is likely her own daemon, tone crisp.]

Long experience teaches me human-like species are the exceptions in the greater universe, not the rule. Simply presuming otherwise against fact and science would be foolish, would it not?

She is, of course, another Blue Diamond. While it is not something we ourselves in the Authority have succeeded at yet, it is not impossible. Having the companionship of another Blue Diamond is ...

[Whatever she was going to say doesn't get said, she just trails off into sad uncertainty again.]