It's true that it's not considered to be particularly good form to interript someone while they play Go, but Dylan is a starship captain who used to play on his ship, and had played on many other ships before that, even at the Academy, where he'd first picked up the game, because it was considered good training for young officer cadets. He's used to interruptions. He's also used to playing with Nietzscheans: Gaheris had made an art out of cheating, and that included distractions.

A new game for a new player is in order, though, and Dylan begins to clear the boards.

"I'm not from this world, either, so maybe our rules started out the same."

Or different, but he says it with a smile for the young woman. She seems nervous and, he supposes, perhaps has reason to be: he's a big, strong man, and she's a small woman, though she's not precisely delicate. But he's as welcoming as he can he as he holds out a hand to the spare seat.

"I'm happy to teach you."