"I will know more things every day."

"That's true, the books might not age well."

"But in the meantime it makes a lot of things confusing."

"That sounds frustrating."

"Yeah."

"There are much simpler books but you might find them boring. I noticed you didn't get many more of the books about kinds of animals."

"...I already have one about kinds in the zoo and kinds that are not in the zoo."

"Yes, lots of books for one year olds are repetitive."

"Why?"

"I think typically children enjoy that."

"...but it's just all the same, it's boring."

"You certainly shouldn't do anything that bores you."

"Good."

Smile. He extends his arms to get a turn hugging the small child.

Small child! Kiss!

Giggle.

Baaaaaaaaby. 

Their books arrive!

Well gosh she'd better get underway on reading them all.

There are many.

It'll take her a few days.

Her parents dote and stock up on foods without animal products and give Afen permission to come over in the afternoons to speak Oahkar at her. Aitim combs through legal records for unjustly unemployed oranges.

"...I don't speak this language," she says of Oahkar.

"Yes, I know! But you want to learn languages while you're young, because people have a brain plasticity which makes it much much easier to learn languages when they're young, and it gets substantially harder once you're three."

"Are you sure that works for aliens?"

"No! But the worst-case is that you have learned some languages and then continue to find it easy to pick up languages, which is not a very bad outcome."