"Oh?" At this, Emet-Selch couldn't help but smirk. "It seems we may share a common interest. I have spent much of my life building empires, you see.

"How about this: I shall merely charge you my usual hourly fee as a healer here as financial recompense, and as we collaborate on your medicine, I would hear of your various trials and tribulations as a leader. There is much to learn from another man's experience after all."

It may be that they cannot offer him any new insights into the nature of men. However, the possibility of learning something new is not zero. Who knows? It may come in handy when he returns to his own star.