On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Alan Harnum wrote:

Well, she still seemed quite pleased with him near the end of the first OVA
series.  For the queen of an empire, Deva is pretty bloody naive.

	The problem is, she's *not* the queen of an empire.  She's the queen
of a *hive*.  Her subjects -- while I *like* the Bugrom, I like them a lot,
but let's not kid around here, they're bugs -- are probably biologically
programmed to obey her, as they have been programmed to obey all the queens
stretching back into history.  So she's never had to interact on a social
basis with someone with free will or a complicated, devious personality
before.

	(See Poul Anderson's "The High Crusade" for further speculations on
why, even without a technological advantage, humans might be able to take
alien empires on their own turf.)

	Anyway, I frankly suspect that this is *why* she's attracted to
Jinnai. He fascinates her, since he is something she has never encountered
before.  It's plausible that any human being who could speak her language
would have aroused the same interest.

Chris Davies.