"It was, yes. Huh... so you get the meaning intended by the speaker? What if one of us makes up a random collection of sounds, but have clear meaning behind it? Or if we repeat a word that we don't know the meaning of?"

Shrug. "I know as much about this translation magic as you do."

"Right. We might just test it then." He says two things, one which he thinks is likely a curse word which he doesn't know the meaning of and the second is just two sounds that he is intending to mean 'word'.

"Neither of those translated."

"Weird, but I am not complaining about being able to talk to you at all." Shrug.

"Henry might have an idea on how to further test it or something."

He shrugs also.

Back to building. With magic. And a combination of new and old technology. It shoult turn out to be a very eclectic project.

With pauses for food, during which Taharqi continues to instruct them in food magic (and they actually make progress! food magic: possible for the extradimensional people), continues to learn crystal magic, and they sometimes have more sex.

The extradimensional people are entirely fine with these developments.

Gabe figures it's hard to experiment with food and not offering that food, so the celebratory cake for when the base is done being built won't be as novel, but still: cake.

...........what the FUCK is this he is having an out of body experience

Gabe is always glad to bring a man to ecstasy.

"This is a food you just... have? In real life????"

"Yes. You think people would get better at building stuff and distributing porn and forget about food?"

"It's not even chocolate cake. Are you going to explode if we flavor something with chocolate?"

"How should I know, I have never had any whatever-that-is!"

"A food that is a near universal favored among humans." He makes a chocolate tablet, then - thinking better - makes enough to fill his palm.

"Gabe, hold him up just in case."

(Gabe does that.)

Hold on, let him film this. He pulls out his phone with his free hand.

Okay he can try some cho...

.......co.......

......late............................

Gabe prevents him from falling over. "Enjoying yourself?"

"How do you do anything other than eat and fuck all day?" he says, a bit breathlessly.

Snort. "Eventually everything gets boring when not done in moderation?"

"I kink on being dominated and Henry is a huge nerd with other interests?"