I am now completely convinced Nadin has Aspergers syndrome. She fits the pathology so perfectly! 
My daughter has Asperger's and I can pick them out in a crowd, and I don't think she is. Asperger's people tend to back down from confrontation and are sensitive to others laughing and/or making fun of them.
Nadin has led herself to believe she's highly intelligent and better than the other primitives, when in reality she's just as stupid as they are, if not more. That's all it is. To her, that she even talks to them should be an honor to the primitives. If they really knew what they had, they would appoint her their goddess and beg to sit at her feet everyday to have her bestow her vast knowledge to them, the peons.
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