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"What's Hebrew?"

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"It's a language! Humans from Israel speak it. It sounds like this." She lapses into Hebrew: "This is a Hebrew sentence and if I wrote it it'd go right to left!"

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The fairy does not understand a word of it. "That's a pretty language," he remarks.

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"Yeah! I'm going to learn more probably. Like Latin."

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"Languages can be useful. Especially if you're going to travel a lot, or if a lot of people who speak the same language are going to travel to you."

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"Well, Latin is a dead language mostly, except they still use it in churches and to name animals and stuff."

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"Why would you learn it then?"

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"To read things, more than to talk to people in it."

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"Oh, I suppose that makes sense. Wouldn't most things worth reading have been translated, though?"

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"Sure, but I want to read it in the original."

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He shrugs. "If that's a priority."

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"And there's lots of Latin in English, too, so it's interesting."

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"Not my area," he admits.

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"That's okay. Can I ride a unicorn?"

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"What do you think, Frostflower?"

Frostflower whuffles.
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"Was that a good noise?"

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He laughs. "I think so. Do you know how to ride a--the mortal world doesn't have unicorns. Do you know how to ride a...horse?"

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"I haven't ever done it but I've seen it on TV."

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"Well, you had better not try to direct her, at least to start, but--if you just put your leg over, like this," he says, helping lift her onto the unicorn.

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Mehitabel sits on the unicorn! Eeeee.

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And the fairy leads the unicorn around for a bit.

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This is the best thing ever.

"How long do unicorns live?"
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"Fifty to sixty years, usually."

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"That's longer than horses. How old is this one?"

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"Frostflower's about thirty-five."

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