Yeah. I could learn it but I don't think it'll help us put Satan in jail by itself.

Yeah, they, like, help you fall asleep, and help make your clothes not dusty, and make flowers bloom.

Yeah. That doesn't seem like it'll help very much. 

You wanna do anything else here, if we can't go to the river until tomorrow?

I didn't get through all the words.

OK! There's a lot of words I guess.

Yeah. Maybe I'll get faster as I go. 

Zana is maybe gonna keep reading about Greek gods then.

Eventually Connor comes over to them and lets them know that it's time to go home for dinner.

He has not gotten very far on memorizing how everything in English is spelled but he needs Zana's help deciphering the definitions less often than when he started.

Some time after they make it home, Karen arrives home from work.

"You guys have fun today?"

"I did!"

"I did not have fun but I know how to spell the words up through 'alacrity'."

"That's... good, I guess? Do you need anything?"

"Nope!"

"Are you sure."

"I guess some water would be nice."

Maitimo is given water. 

She gets started making dinner.

He closes his eyes and sits down on the floor and sings and reads her mind.

She is mostly wondering whether she's just going to go into work literally every day forever with sinking dread in her stomach around the idea that her twice-kidnapped child will be found and all of them will be killed. Also the water was definitely just him trying to make her feel better or trying to give the correct answer to the question, but water is important and maybe if he gets things he wants when he asks for them he will feel OK talking about any other stuff he needs.

Awww man deceiving people is difficult. He will have to get better at it so Karen is not sad. 

He sings the dust out of his clothes because they're really getting pretty grubby.

Karen is of the opinion that tiny children should stop trying to deceive her so that she stands any chance at all of properly taking care of them. 

She serves them all food and asks if anybody wants to play a game or watch a movie or something after dinner.

"That sounds fun!"

"Movie or game?" She's kind of unclear on how he's going to participate with his eyes shut tight but whatever.

Oops maybe he should've asked what they were before expressing that they sounded fun. "What movies are there?"

"Uh, a lot of stories you've never heard of, I guess. We have a bunch of animated movies and some ones with spaceships and some documentaries about dinosaurs and space and history and some that are funny and some that are mostly, like, adventure stuff?"