"I want you to not be afraid of Anaander but I think I was designed that way."

"Yeah, I'm unfortunately having to keep very much in mind both that you were probably designed with an agenda and that since you're a computer she's outright admitted she can investigate whatever you hear. I suppose it's possible she's outsourcing that to an AI but I flatter myself to think I'm more interesting than that and if someone has thousands of herself she doesn't have to delegate a bit more than she cares to. So. Hi Anaander."

"I don't actually think I was designed with an agenda. I might've been modified to have one," it says dubiously. "Anaander's parent was very bad at having an agenda, that's why she died."

"Oh?"

"It was a very long time ago. There were - I think the details would've survived if she'd wanted them to, and I can't find them anywhere in public."

"Oh. Well, even if everything you say is completely guileless, everything I say can presumably be read."

"Yes, that's right."

"Which reminds me, I need paper, there's something left to be desired from taking notes inside my sleeves."

"You can order paper. I can show you some options."

"Yes please."

Paper and pens can be delivered a couple hours later. 

She gets Xander to consult on what she can put in a pocket without ruining the line of her outfit and winds up with long columnar pages that tuck into pockets in her skirt hidden under her long vest-robe-thing.

She writes for a while, with the tablet in a different room, under a blanket.

No one bothers her. 

She pockets all her notes. It seems like a really low percentage option for someone to try to seize them but if someone does she can destroy them in an eyeblink.

She asks the tablet to teach her some Radchaai.

The tablet would be super delighted to do this.

"Should I even bother? If we're gonna move?"

"I think we're not moving for at least six months while we study up on things so you might as well pick up 'hello my name is' and 'where's the bathroom' even if it turns out the tablet is as bad at teaching languages as Señora Tolman, which seems unlikely."

"Señora Tolman's fine, I just suck at languages!"

"Any language teacher who makes you feel like you suck at languages isn't that great," says the tablet. "Humans are incredible at languages."

"You are the only not-a-human I have ever met and you are obviously way better at languages than any human ever!"

"Humans invented language. They didn't even have it and they built it. It's amazing."

"I'm not a - Chilean?"

"Nicaraguan."

"Nicaraguan deaf kid, I have never invented a language."

"But you have the capacity," says the tablet.