"Magic doesn't make it so you don't get sick, but it can make you better. I asked Vashal if you were sick, he accidentally said yes, I said I might be able to fix it."

"I was not sick I was -" Sigh. "Making a point. Did not mean to leave you without good translation."

"He wasn't awful, I'd have been really impressed if I met him first."

Smile. "Aitim said it wasn't just having good translation you might also worried. It was a good point so I came back."

"Worry. Or be worried. He said you had work."

"I mean, I did, but I would have ignored my work."

"That's what I thought! I'm just that exciting."

"You are so exciting! Everyone is so excited. What would you like to do today?"

"I would like to learn more Anitami! Penumbra's been watching the television a lot but mostly things we don't have to understand the language to enjoy. I'm going to be a lot slower than you, of course. Though I have memorized the alphabet and can mostly spell things if they are said slowly."

"Good for you! I can teach words and also translate some television if you want to watch things where it helps to understand the language."

"Penumbra was trying to figure out the structure of the - we think it's a contest, the dancing contest. Because whatever it is booted her favorite. But we're not even sure if they explain that or if they just expect you to know when you watch it."

Penumbra giggles and looks away.

"They explain it, but probably in the first episode, by mid-season they probably don't keep explaining - I don't watch that one but I can look it up." He does. "- oh, the viewers vote! If you get a pocket everything," he says to Penumbra, "then install that show's app, then you can say who you want to keep, and they count everyone up and whoever gets the most wins. That's how we do government, too."

"How do I get one?" asks Penumbra.

"I will tell them to bring you one now." He sends a message. 

"I want one too."

"They are very useful! I will tell them bring two."

"Are they hard to learn to use?"

" - very easy, for a person from here, children learn very small, but they might be harder for humans and elementals, since your culture is different."

"Maybe, yeah. Even writing isn't that old."

"Writing and symbols - we all know this means play and this means pause and this means warning or alert, there might be lots of things like that. Still I don't think it will take you two very long."

"And then maybe Penumbra can, uh, prevent her second favorite dancer from disappearing off the show."

"Yes! Though lots of people vote. Anitam has - six hundred hundred hundred hundred people."

"...six hundred million people?"

"A million is a hundred hundred hundred?"

...she scribbles some figures but then nods.