"Hm?"

Valia orbits Fika's head once and then very gently nudges Seem's cheek.

Seem continues to look vaguely panicked.

"Oh."

"Um. What if instead we go some-where quiet?"

Valia dips briefly. 

And they head off to a quiet nearby city nook Fika found a while ago that's cozy and away from lots of people.

The city nook is up a tree in a park. They kept plenty of native trees standing.

Seem thinks this is a good nook. She'll take a nap here till it's music time.

Well that leaves Fika with some amount of time, she's not sure how much, till the music. Maybe someone else will remember. For now she'll go and visit Kota.

Kota has to read this book for school. Can Fika read yet?

"Yeah!"

"Do you wanna take turns reading it to each other?"

"Sure!"

He will read her the first few pages, then. It's about a kid who is being pushed too hard by her figure skating coach trying to hold on to her love of the sport and balance it with her personal well-being. When he needs a drink of water he hands the e-reader over to Fika.

"These letters are in Amentan?"

"Yeah. I mean, Tapap. It's not called Amentan, only Tapai people speak it."

"Oh, there are other languages too?"

"Yeah."

"How do you keep track of them all?"

"I don't speak them, I only speak Tapap."

"Huh, does everyone speak Tapap?"

"No..."

"So you can't talk to some other Amentans at all??"

"I can with a computer!"

"How?"