"Yes. You're picking it up very fast, and the Adaros can help you more."

"Translation good picking it up."

"I bet it helps a lot!"

"Yes!"

"Cadra can take you back."

"We'll want all yellow hair again."

Nod. Yellowfy.

And out to the subway they go. There are lots of colorful people on the subway. No reds.

She's not really surprised.

And here is the Adaros' house, blessedly cool after the one block walk in the heat from the train stop. The Adaros welcome them in and give Cadra a cookie and let her pat Alaior's head and send her on her way.

"I talk more Oahkar," she says.

"That's very good," says Alaior. "If you can't talk nobody will understand you."

Nod nod. "Senator not understand all."

"All what?" Alaior asks.

"...I not know all words, I want talk idea words I not know, I try make Senator understand idea."

"Oh. Can I help?"

Shrug. "Help learn Oahkar."

"I could read you a book."

"Ooh, yes, help."

Alaior runs and gets her a book. It is about a lady who cannot have any children and goes on a quest to fix that with the help of talking animals and clouds and rock formations and trees. When she gets the magic object that will let her have children she goes home and marries the boy next door (both are purple) and has a baby, who is named after one of the talking clouds.

Awwwww. "I try?"

Alaior offers her the book.

She takes it, and she reads it aloud, slowly, sounding things out and not always getting them quite right, and turning to Alaior for help when she can't remember what a word means.

Alaior diligently assists!

Excellent.

"Another?"

Alaior has a book about a family of alien technicolor mice and what objects they use for household purposes where those used by the Amentan family "upstairs" are too big!