She has not!

"How'd I do that?"

"You'd write 'do you know anyone who has cool rocks' on a piece of cardboard or something and hold it up instead of stopping people."

"I don't think most of you all can read amalien?"

"- right, you'd do it in Cryptophasia."

"Would still need someone to write it since Cryptophasia needs to be trans-liter-ated."

"Why don't you learn the alphabet, there isn't that much of it."

"I will! Just, it might take a while."

"Well, maybe you can come back to this when you've learned it so you aren't interrupting everybody who walks past here."

"I can go interr-upt people some-where else!"

"That's... not better."

"Hm... I think it'll be a while till I've learned how to write 'mentan and I don't want to wait that long?"

"The thing you're doing is inconveniencing a lot of people for a thing that is not important to them."

"Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to do that at all."

"Okay, good." With that he moves on.

Fika is gonna find crayons with her money and ask Kota to help her make a sign. Does this store have crayons?

This store has kitchen appliances but can direct her to a place with crayons.

Oh, but first can she buy that thing? It looks sorta neat.

...yes, if she would like to purchase an immersion sous vide she may.

Yay! She exchanges money for the fun toy and carries it over her shoulder on her way to the crayon store.

The crayon store is actually a toy store! It has kid-sized musical instruments, and stuffed toys like the ones Kota has, and boxfuls of games and puzzles, and kids' books, and train sets, and building blocks, and action figures, and dolls, and ruggedized simplified electronics, and kits, and chemistry sets, and, yes, art supplies including crayons.

She will take these crayons and this paper and these other crayons and this stuffed possum-ish friend for Kota and this chem-istry set for when she next sees Vira. 

She does not actually have that much money.

Oh no! She can get the chem-istry later she guesses.

The sous vide was actually pretty expensive.

Can she still afford the other things, cept for the chemistry set she'll come back later for?