"It does," Laertes says, letting a tentative smile break across his face. "We had no such things as novels, in my time and place--they've been a new delight for me, here. But I confess, they would be more familiar if they were more like plays. Even the plays of later eras dictate so much of what the actors do and express. It's unlike anything I've seen before. So your work ... is more that of a--" he gropes for the term Nina had used when he was working through her survey; he remembers guiltily that he's still not done with it yet "--director?"