"Then people should say that!"

"Hrmph, this never happened when it was your Amentans."

"Yeah, I dunno why people are mean here, but if an Amentan did say 'I'm busy' they would probably also mean to go away and stop distracting them even if they were nicer about it."

Well, Fika can try to find something else to do she guesses.

It turns out that nobody wants her to do their job with them.

Fika is not really sure what to do with herself briefly, but will try wandering around with Kota for a bit.

Kota looks at things, making himself unobtrusive since people are mean here. Eventually he circles back to the Gabriel School. It has classes available. He squints at the list.

Fika can squint with him. 

"It has one on learning to read. Do you want to learn to read?"

"I know how to read?"

"I mean like, uh, grownup language."

"I'm super grownup and can also read like everyone else?"

"So can you read what the classes are?"

"Yeah!" 

She demonstrates this by reading them aloud, though she does sound out any complicated ones.

"Huh, okay. I thought you could only read Amalien."

"I can, it's in Amalien?"

"Nuh-uh, I don't know Amalien."

Fika inspects the letters very closely.

So does Kota. His head bumps into hers.

"Sorry."

In-specting! Very closely!

Weird! The letters are different.

Hm, she doesn't know why. She'll probably find out what's going eventually* - she usually does.

In the meantime, she wants to try one of the classes on learning how to do something.

*Here "eventually" refers to a period of time that could be anywhere from a few minutes to a thousand years. 

The classes are mostly on practical handcrafts for a preindustrial setting, plus literacy and arithmetic.

She's gonna try weaving! Maybe they'll know new ways to make softer blankets.

She has missed the morning weaving class but can make the afternoon one. Kota decides he is going to attend a math class so everyone will be very impressed with how he already knows math.

"You okay going by yourself or d'you want to go to math together?"

"I can go myself if you don't wanna go to math today."