The bird-elf who recently had an impeccable entrance accepts the pamphlet with a flat expression. She 'stares' at the Transformer for juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust long enough for it to start getting extremely awkward before opening her mouth to say, in a rich and musical voice: "I'm afraid my people, the Americans, have an abiding taboo against literacy. The mere act of witnessing the pictograms others call 'letters' is punishable by death, with media literacy resulting in the culling of one's entire bloodline. What the fuck does this say?"