"Very, very educational," Tahiri told her. "For everyone involved, I think, but for me especially. There's some fascinating differences between the way we're accustomed to seeing the galaxy and the way the Yuuzhan Vong do, but trying to find the common ground is actually fun. There's some odd . . . not similarities, exactly, but . . ."

She bit her lip, trying to find the right word in Basic, and held both hands up a few inches apart from each other. "Parallels. The same ideals, just assigned to different values."