"Well, there you go."

"I wonder how the translation effect would render it. I'm out of practice at not falling over, though, and doing it without wings is the equivalent of having a terrible accent."

giggle. "I have no idea! Bar, any light to shed on the subject?"

"Might be synaesthetically weird in the other direction," she muses.

"I guess. I don't think the translation effect is actually... doing anything to me? It wouldn't improve matters, anyway. So I don't know what that would be like."

"Sure."

"I will dance a sentence for you if you're really curious."

"I wasn't before you offered but now I am."

She bursts out laughing. "That is fantastic," she giggles.

Aurin takes a bow.

"And it was synaesthetically interesting."

"Yeah? How so?"

"Oh, like--it was half like I was hearing it in my language, and half like I was just understanding the language as it was."

"Huh, must've been weird, you've got really different word order going on."

"Very weird! But fun weird, not even just vaguely unsettlingly weird like the gender thing."

"...Am I that unsettling? I don't find you unsettling, just oddly specific."

"I don't find you unsettling, per se, it's just--I feel a constant low-level suspicion that you might be misgendering me. And even if you aren't, if I met anyone else from your world, they aren't guaranteed to be so adaptive."

"I remember which one you told me you were. I don't understand the baggage around that, but you don't understand the baggage around my gender, either, and it doesn't bother me..."

"Maybe I'm more sensitive about it than you are."

"Yeah, maybe. I do remember which one you - hey, the bar's a person, did you ask if the bar has a gender?"

"...Bar?"

Obviously, I am made of wood, rather geometrically at that, and cannot be said to have a sex, but I prefer to be considered (in his understanding) female and (in yours) harmi.

"Okay, sure."