"You do, yes." If ever Siebren mentions the quiet car, he generally means the room stenciled with constellations, and that is where Nita joins him now. He has mostly recovered from the stresses and injuries of the mission, though there is still an edge of exhaustion to his movements - uninterrupted sleep has been hard to come by.
"Thank you for being willing to teach me." Though tired, his smile is genuine.
By this point Nita's eyes don't immediately jump to the stars around them - but she does smile up at them once she's in the room proper, before moving over to place her book down.
"Not like there's a correspondence program for the Speech - not on this train, anyway. And it's like any language; getting to practice it with someone who already uses it helps loads."
With that exquisite explanation, Nita began to flip through the Manual to the syllabary - one with quite a number of characters, if Siebren's trying to get a head start.
"And to some extent, the language itself will help you - it wants to be understood."
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"Thank you for being willing to teach me." Though tired, his smile is genuine.
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"Not like there's a correspondence program for the Speech - not on this train, anyway. And it's like any language; getting to practice it with someone who already uses it helps loads."
With that exquisite explanation, Nita began to flip through the Manual to the syllabary - one with quite a number of characters, if Siebren's trying to get a head start.
"And to some extent, the language itself will help you - it wants to be understood."