I haven't really been focusing on learning the language but I could try to focus on that. It would still probably take longer than an hour. I could still not listen to her thoughts, or she could learn how to only send the ones she wants to send.

"Oh, you can do that?"

Everybody does that. Otherwise it would be awkward if you wanted to make someone a present or something.

"I... guess? Uh, how do you do it?"

You differentiate the things you want to send and the things you want to not-send. It usually takes a lot of practice to do consistently. Most people have some kind of sensory or spatial metaphor - indoors/outdoors, written versus spoken...

...Alli repeats this to Bella. "Bella says she needs more details."

What kinds of details?

"Kinda details - uh - which is which in those metaphors or doesn't it matter, how much practice, what happens if you get it wrong?"

If you get it wrong I guess maybe you have things public which you meant to be private? It's about how you conceptualize it but 'written thoughts are private, spoken thoughts are public' would be a much more ordinary way of conceptualizing it than the other way around, or 'indoor thoughts are private, outdoor thoughts are public'. We teach it to children and children are slower to learn things but it usually takes months, I think. 

"Wow, if she can't be around you for months that's gonna be a pain in the neck. Since she's the one who teleports and this is, uh. ...Africa."

Oh, staying here for a couple of months while everyone learns how to do private thoughts would be no problem.

"I still think you are confused about plants. Unless one of you does turning random plants into food."

Plants are food, you don't have to turn them into it. You can turn them into tastier food, I suppose. What do you mean 'does'?

"As your bonus power?"

I still don't know what you mean by - 

- I might know what you mean by that?

He holds out his hand. He frowns at it. He sends a little shimmering arc of water flying through the air.

Okay that's a your universe thing I cannot do that at home. 

"Oh. Well, you're twins, so I guess here you can?"

...because we're twins? 

"Yeah, here twins get superpowers? When we turn sixteen, but I dunno how old you are if you just got them for being here now."

Older than sixteen - I would have been a little terror with this at sixteen - Telvo, what did you get -

He is making sparks, with some bewilderment. Uh, this. This is neat. Not very useful, I don't think, but fun! I actually think this world is quite well-designed, if in a hands-off sort of way. Good aesthetics.

"Glad you like it!"

Twirly shimmery sparks! Who does the powers?

"...nobody? They just started happening in the fifties."

Your gods are super hands-off.

Honestly that sounds amazing. Just - cool stuff, no explanation, have fun, figure out what rules make sense yourself.