...Nod.

I feel like we missed some things because we weren't clear enough about what you were saying, and we could have looked for the doors person sooner. Does it bother you when I do that?

Sigh. Makes sense. Just annoying.

Yeah. I can try to only do it if it's really important. 

Mommy thinking I maybe grow out of it but maybe not is happen even when learning language by magic. When bigger can do own wishing maybe think of something.

I can't read. Never grew out of it. I just do stuff that it doesn't matter too much for. 

Talking matter for all things.

Not for creating things, that's something my people care a lot about. I don't think we'd blink at an artist who didn't talk, or a musician who always sang, or a dancer, or a hunter. Not that you should be going off what people care about anyway. 

Can only singing words someone else writing. Happen same thing if I write.

D'you want me to try brainstorming approaches to the thing, or not, because I can but also we can just do something interesting like fly around. 

Probably not thinking of any new thing.

Maybe not. But I'm three thousand years old and have had a silly broken brain the whole time, I tried lots of things and they might not all be things you tried. 

Okay. Good if thing going away.

Yeah, I know, right? Have you tried learning a language with a crazy simple grammar? Like, every sentence is noun-verb, there aren't any modifiers?

Am only speak Samarian and Edori and English and Callian. Not worse in English even though English having stupid grammar. Just different kinds mistakes.

Okay. I don't happen to know a language with absurdly restricted syntax but I would be interested in whether you still have a hard time with it or whether there's a level of complexity at which you start having a hard time with it. If you can do simple, you might be able to do chains of simple or something. There's also magic that could help with memory, but doesn't sound like a memory problem. Also four languages is amazing for your age; you clearly have a talent for it. 

Um, no, two is with wishes. English for talking party people and Callian for go visit Rose and Beast and rosebuds.

Wanna tell me some stories? I've never heard of Rose and a Beast. 

Ooh okay!

The story is of course grammatically constrained... and she doesn't always remember to give context for magic things... but she tells an otherwise quite engaging story about how once there was a one Mommy named Belle and she was from a world with magic but not many people who could do it and she went looking for her one Grandpa in the magic woods and got stuck in a castle with a fluffy cat monster under a curse and tore apart the library to find a way to break it and learned about enchanting (Pen knows the basic principles) but wound up breaking it the usual way anyhow (and also there was a one Bad Lady but she wasn't magic so she was not as dangerous as a regular Bad Lady and died unceremoniously mid-narrative) and then they got MARRIED and went home and Belle became a powerful enchantress and made a new magic castle and has three children who match Pen's sisters and an apprentice and stuff!

Sounds awesome. Do copies of your mother tend to have adventures?

Yeah! Am learn them being bedtime stories so know all things when finding they real and when Jane come back and go visit. Jane was break before and Mommy not telling very small cherubs magic things because most Samaria people not know.

...when you were a kid your mom told you true stories as bedtime stories, because you might say something if you knew too much?

Yeah. Is lots to be keep track of, did not want having suddenly memorize so many people and stuff later, so instead bedtime stories then surprise all true also the spaceship Jovah.

What about the spaceship?

Spaceship usually what make praying songs work! But, people think it a god. Eeeeeverybody all Samaria think that except some people. Mommy find out it not a god because Alleluia find out she magic and Mommy been saying 'oh Jovah did it' and Alleluia knowing Jovah not able doing the thing so she asking and Mommy go 'oh but how you know wasn't Jovah' and so they told each other about spaceship and about magic and then Mommy go up spaceship and be captain of it and now it do what she say but she say keep make songs working for now. Except thunderbolts those it asking permission. And then there Jane, and Jane eat it. But it go back to being Jovah when Jane break but now she back and ate it again.