"That makes sense."

"It would be nice to have magic powers."

"I suppose so."  Type type.

And it seems she's just going to stand here for the next half hour or so unless Bella requests anything.

"Can I have paper and pencil?"

" - Sure."  Tappity typity.  "Someone will bring it."

And within a few minutes someone's scrounged her theater-branded pencil and pad.

That'll do. Scribble scribble.

"May I ask what you're writing about?"

"No."

".....Okay."

Eventually Arillegua sweeps by to invite Bella to her car.  It uses shapes differently from ones Bella's used to but not very much so from the other ones she can see driving by, and is mostly black on the exterior but completely pink inside.  Mercedes waves them goodbye.

"So my brother had this idea, that if you remember songs from your world, I could record some, and then you'll earn money when people buy the song!  - Did you understand all that?"

"- I think so! I'm not a very good singer but I could sing a few things. I might not remember all the words. And they would almost all be in my first language, English. Does anyone speak English on Génesis?"

"I haven't heard of it..."  She pokes at a device that's more like the camera from earlier than like Mercedes's.  "If you remember enough words, I can hire a lyricist - someone who writes the words of songs - to translate it.  Are any of these your language?"  She holds out the device.

They're probably not, but they have Spanish, so! Peek?

Some of them look like they might be in scripts she sort of recognizes, but nope!  No English in the whole list.  Arillegua gets about a dozen notifications in the time it takes Bella to look.

"No. I don't see English here."

"Well, I'll get you a tutor - a, hm, a teacher just for you."

"Thank you. I learned Spanish in school but I need" what's practice "to speak it more."

"I haven't heard of 'Spanish' either."

"...ah. What do you call this language?"

"Forjañol."

"It's - very like Spanish."

"That's lucky.  Or an act of God or whatever."  'God' is also not the gender Bella's used to.

"- God is a feminine noun in Forjañol?"

"Yes.  You've been getting like half of the genders wrong."

"I guess that is a difference. English does not have word gender so it was hard to learn. I thought I remembered wrong. God I was very sure of though."