a Thomassian child in Milliways
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"Well, we're happy to have you here! I can take you to Candace's home. What are your thoughts on work?"

She opens the sliding doors to the second row of seats, revealing a spacious row of seats with a very large amount of legroom. They're covered in an incredibly soft and breathable material, that almost feels like a fleece blanket.

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"I'm happy to work at a reasonably safe task I know or can be taught how to do. What's your name?"

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"You're flexible, aren't you? My name is Brenda." 

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"There are a lot of possible improvements over my current situation."

Karasauriu leaves Bar, waving to Candace who's still at the door. She gets in the … car, and sits in a seat. If there's anything more complicated to do than that she doesn't know how to do it.

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Brenda quietly opens the doors from her front, before starting her drive home. It doesn't take particularly long before finding the apartment building where Brenda, Candace and the others live. It takes up essentially the entire city block, with a relatively narrow street in front of it, leading into the underground parking garage. Brenda opens the wide, glass sliding door at the entrance, walking towards one of the many elevators in the first floor lobby.

"We'll be taking you up soon. I'll just have to park the car first."

The elevator is square, and fairly large. The door waits open for Karasauriu, until Brenda returns and walks her in.

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She can't actually parse that speech in realtime and isn't going to try transcribing it if Brenda doesn't seem to think it's important.

From a slight distance, this looked like a lot of building.

From closer, it really looks like a lot of building.

She follows Brenda.

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The elevator starts moving up fairly quickly; it doesn't take long before Brenda uses a key to open a door right in front of the elevator, and the two of them enter what looks like a classroom, with children running around. There isn't any studying happening at the moment, just play. There are several corridors leading off from the classroom; Brenda walks down one of them, taking Karasauriu to Candace's room. "You sleep here", Brenda says, slowly opening the door. It looks like a dorm, with a king-size bed against the opposite wall. "But you learn, so you can work." she then says. She points to the phrasebook.

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Karasauriu will pull out the phrasebook and check some things.

"I sleep here." She gestures at the bed.

"I learn." She gestures at the phrasebook.

"I can work." She mimes spinning thread, looks momentarily frustrated, then mimes holding a baby.

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Brenda nods. "Not many people like doing that! So they'll let you." Brenda takes Candace's tablet, placed onto a desk, and puts it into Karasuriu's hands. "That teaches you language!" Cynthia taps a few buttons, before ending up on a children's language learning course. An enthusiastic woman explains the names of animals, family members, and colors! "Especially with book."

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She'll watch the screen and try to cross-reference things with the book. How fast is the woman talking?

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The woman in the videos is mostly talking at thomassian speed, which is to say incredibly fast. But she does take the care to say the keywords of sentences extra slowly, wanting to guarantee that any listeners can hear at least one word.

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…well, she can try to keep up with doing whatever combination of using the phrasebook and using the illusion screen she's supposed to be doing, but she doesn't have that much dictionary and this is going pretty fast. She may look somewhat confused.

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"Well, kids talk to moms! Use the main words. Repeat what's said." Brenda taps the pause button, and turns on the subtitles, pointing at them. Then she rewinds the video a few sentences, using the bar under the video player. "Read what's under. Find in phrasebook!" 

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