"Ah. Also bad. Sometimes happens even to experienced riders."

"In any case it's a convenient opportunity to test out the day's topic."  Which she directs the conversation back to.

Since Kyeo cannot contribute to this conversation very well he will go back to the music place to bonk the strekbort.

" - You'll write down anything else you remember later, yes?  This is - extremely important."

Nod nod.

"Well, have fun.  We can come over to meet you there later."

Off he goes to do bonking.

Colley greets him bouncefully.  "Our ancient sheet music is the same as yours!!!  Your modern kind, I mean - here, I have copies - "  She passes over a sheaf, with printed staves but handwritten notes and lyrics.

He looks it over. That looks like the Kularan alphabet! he writes.

"I know!!!  Do you recognize this - "  She plays a line on the setrekbort.

Headshake.

"Well, maybe your Sarham will."  She hums a little phrase as punctuation.  "How are you today?"

I'm fine. I don't know very much about medicine except for how I was treated for a condition you don't consider a disease here so I was not useful to Zarian today.

Colley resumes playing.  "Oh?"

Nod nod. He bonks along.

"Mm."  Bonk-bonk-bonk-bonk, bonk-bonk; bonk-bonk-bonk-bonk, bonk-bonk; bonk-bonk-bonk-bonk bonk bonk-bonk~

Somebody slips into the room without knocking, two mugs in one hand.

" - Dira!!  Kyeo, this is my twin, Diravni - Dira; Kyeo - " and she's off chattering in Cretari.  Kyeo catches his and Sarham's names, and 'music', 'listen', 'thank you' (as an aside when she accepts one of the mugs), and 'nights'.  Dira nods; she switches back.  "They have a few more performances left of a show and are too lazy to pick up something that would let them zhoop a whole language before then - you should really go see it before it closes, do you like theatre?"

Shrug. I couldn't understand it.

" - Oh, right.  Of course.  Well, it's a musical, you could still enjoy the dancing and whatnot; someone could tell you the plot beforehand or afterward or - though I have a box, during is still a bit too much of a breach of audience etiquette - but maybe half of each depending on your preference."

Cretari sentence.

"Or we have the script and could maybe do a live-translated table read at some point before afterward et cetera."

I have not been to live theater before! I don't know if it is worth going to the trouble for me.

"What, as opposed to dead theatre?"

Recorded performances.