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Federation political prisons are not particularly uncomfortable. She's not going anywhere, but she can read, she's considering taking up an instrument, the only really awkward thing is that she doesn't particularly want to be supervised while she's sweating her way through her next pon farr one way or another but that's years off. That and she wishes she'd taken longer to get caught. But she was running out of the really low-hanging fruit anyway.
This is what she signed up for. She makes up imaginary profiles of people on the planets she got to, people who can live longer fuller lives with the stars in reach, one per day. One per day and she'll have loads of estimated impact left unused when she dies. Perfectly reasonable tradeoff and she can still read books.
Someone wants to interview her about Vulcan; they don't want to lose anything that anybody remembers; she gives the interview and then picks up some poetry.
warpfairy
The Quendi dress up for the occasion. Hello, Starfleet away team. Does the Federation know yet how they get around?
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The science officer would really really like to know. Her guess is that it's some variant on transporter tech.
They also sent a linguist, isn't that considerate of them?
They also sent a linguist, isn't that considerate of them?
We, too, brought our linguist. He looks like he's five but our species grows up really slowly. He speaks English just fine but would be happy to teach your linguist Quenya, or if she speaks other Federation languages he's only had the chance to learn about fifty of them.
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The Federation linguist really wants to talk to the Elendil linguist. This is so exciting.
There is a Vulcan on this away team. He takes T'Mir aside for a very quiet conversation.
Fëanáro is happily explaining Quenya and Pax and Davlian and everything else he's been trying to pick up since his home world made contact with Davlia - he knows not to say 'since I developed planar shifting' - and no not all Quendi pick up languages as fast as him but most of them are pretty fast at it, they have excellent memories. He's nearly a hundred and twenty one Earth years but yes, by the standards of his people he's a kid.
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Well, the linguist is very impressed by his command of all these languages. How is he picking which ones to learn?
(T'Mir looks a little pensive after she and the Vulcan Starfleet person rejoin the group.)
(T'Mir looks a little pensive after she and the Vulcan Starfleet person rejoin the group.)
He's mostly been listening to sound samples and learning ones that are pretty but he's also been trying to learn ones that the Elendil might need.
In that case he will try learning Japanese! Would she like to speak it for the rest of the conversation? That's the fastest way he'll learn.
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The linguist can do that!
(Now the Bellas are talking to each other telepathically, a little distracted from bamboozling the science officer and refusing to explain her tricorder readings.)
(Now the Bellas are talking to each other telepathically, a little distracted from bamboozling the science officer and refusing to explain her tricorder readings.)
Rúmil is not as oblivious as Fëanáro and will notice this, but not do anything, except step up the bamboozling to the degree this can be done. Fëanáro will startle the linguist slightly by using osanwë to pull Japanese vocabulary out of her head so he can speak faster.
warpfairy
The linguist is indeed startled! Are Quendi psionic? (The science officer is distracted by this question.)
They are! They have decided not to reveal all of their range but do say that it can be up to a mile.
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Gosh. That's competitive with Betazoids, says the science officer. They don't have a Betazoid handy.
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So the science officer talks about Betazoids, who are very psionic indeed and casually read minds a lot. (T'Mir opines that this is very rude of them and they think she's rude when she goes around blocking scans in places with significant Betazoid populations.)
Some cultures of the Quendi read minds a lot and some only do it to communicate but all Quendi learn how to keep thoughts private.
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And how does one do that, the science officer would like to know? The Betazoids don't seem to abide by an equivalent distinction.
So he patiently explains how Quendi can make their thoughts private to osanwë, it should work for humans but Bella's a subtle artist so he hasn't actually had the chance to try.
The people settling this planet look human but some have psi. Maybe there's a Betazoid ancestor. Is that how ancestry works?
warpfairy
Half-Betazoid half-humans have psi, but less than Betazoids, and usually only do emotions, not anything more complex on their own. Quarter-Betazoids have even less than that.
(T'Mir volunteers that she's got a below-average but still similar to a full Vulcan dose of her own variety.)
(T'Mir volunteers that she's got a below-average but still similar to a full Vulcan dose of her own variety.)