"The translation thing sounds more fun and osanwë doesn't take super long, I can probably do both."

"Uh, okay. I don't know who to ask about the osanwë idea except like, a lawyer? For the innocence proving thing."

"What's a lawyer?" 

"They argue about whether people are innocent or guilty and stuff."

"That sounds right, then, yeah."

"My freshman roommate's in law school now but in New York..."

"I am guessing it'd be horribly rude to just make an announcement?"

"You could put something in the school paper, but nobody reads it..."

"I mean over osanwë at everyone in my range. At home only my father and I are allowed to do that unless it's an emergency warning or something."

"Uh, that would freak people out, yep. Capes are - they've been around for twelve years, even the freshmen remember capes being new, before that there wasn't anything like - so, uh, don't randomly fling powers around where people aren't expecting it."

"Okay. I can go visit some lawyers."

"You should probably call them and make an appointment first."

"And how do I do that -"

So Dylan goes and finds a phone book near the library phone and looks up lawyers, and shows Fëanáro how to make calls.

And he is distracted by wanting an explanation of how telephones work but eventually makes calls.

Dylan does not know how telephones work mechanically he is a linguistics student.

Lawyers' receptionists would like to know who is calling and what the call is regarding.

He is (he rolls his eyes) a cape with mindreading powers, the one who lives in the library in Baltimore, and interested in using them to help criminal defendants.

The lawyers will investigate whether that's a potentially admissible procedure and get back to him, what number should they call?

(Dylan thinks that the librarians will be annoyed by taking messages for him but Dylan has an answering machine and he can do it.)

"Thank you. You can have money for it once I get some."

"Thanks."

"How about the translation thing?"

"I still need to ask the guy, I'll see him on Friday."

"Okay." And he goes back to reading his way through all the books.

"...did you not want to go get dinner."

"Oh right."