Talents in Amenta
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"Nita? Nita! God, you scared me- here, drink this-" she offers the second cup.

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Nita groans. "Ow, my head. I am not doing that again aaaanytime soon." She manages a couple sips of water from a mostly reclining position, then blinks up at the woman next to Emma. "Er, Ems, who's she?"

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"She-" She blinks, then switches back from English to, well, whatever this is. "She says thank you." She's sure Nita would've, really. "What's your name? I'm Emma, she's Nita."

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Nita does not know enough about languages to notice any oddities, and has the migraine of the year. Possibly the century. She'll just sit here and drink her water and let Emma do the translating, that seems like a good plan right now.

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"I'm Vae," says the local. "I still don't understand where you came from."

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"We're from just outside Jerhattan. Where are we now, please?"

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"...this is Yvalta. Where is Jerhattan?"

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It's... kind of weird not to have heard of Jerhattan, since even if you're not from America it's still by far the biggest city on the Eastern seaboard, but it's not like Emma's heard of Yvalta either. "It's in America, on the east coast. What country is Yvalta in?"

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"Yvalta is a country. I've never heard of America, is it a province of Tapa or something?"

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"Nita, have you ever heard of a country called Yvalta? Or Tapa?"

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"No..? And aaaah don't make me think, ow."

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"Okay, then I have no idea where we are." She pets Nita's hair carefully. "Except safe, so, uh, thanks again for that."

To the woman, she replies, "I have never heard of Yvalta, and, um, I studied a lot of countries." She didn't take the optional Teacher module on it originally, but once they started her on languages at the Center they made sure she at least knew the list of member states, and there was definitely no Yvalta, or Tapa. And she'd be able to translate the name, if it was just a problem with the local language... "America is a country. And a continent, I guess. I think we are, uh, lost." Is there a more emphatic word for lost? They are very lost.

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"...a continent? I'm sure I know all the continents..."

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"Um, do you have a map? I could maybe point it out."

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The woman pulls a device out of a pocket and looks one up.

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The device is unfamiliar, and weirdly high tech for a farm, and that map is not Earth.

"Nita, look at this, I don't know where we are."

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Nita peers at the device. "What's this a map of?"

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"Apparently the planet!"

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"...noooo it's not."

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"I know!"

"I think my friend teleported us, um, much farther than we thought."

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"...teleported?" asks the woman skeptically.

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"Uh. Yes? Psychic talents got discovered, um, maybe a hundred years ago, I forget."

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"...oh, is this a role playing thing? You're very talented actors - I'm a doctor and I really thought she was out -"

The language doesn't have gendered pronouns and she's switched from uncertain-generic to specifically something.

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Emma's encountered more than one language without gendered pronouns, but none of the options she's coming up with for that specific pronoun make any sense (neither of them is wearing green?) so she ignores it. "Out where? Oh, like unconscious- uh, no, no acting here. I do languages, she can teleport-"

"Hey, Nita, can you lift something quick? I'm sorry, I know it'll hurt like hell, but she's never heard of the Center and she thinks I'm making it up..."

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"Argh. You owe me aaaaaall the painkillers, you know that, right?" And Emma's empty water cup can bob its way through thin air over to the woman. "Does she seriously think that map is right, that's not even sorta the right continents."

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