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[When Tess starts talking, Lilly's brow knits in sudden and immediate confusion. With other people, she's maybe ignored their questions, but she's still understood them. But this? This woman isn't making noises like an animal - she's talking like a person, like Victoria or Annabel or Lucas, but Lilly still can't make sense of what she's saying. It's her first experience with a foreign language, and it has her bringing a hand up to touch her own ear, like the problem might be originating there.]

[At least she's got the kid's attention. Tess touches her own ear in imitation, then shakes her head with a smile.]

It is not a failing of your ears.

[She gestures at her own mouth, then taps her own chest.]

It is a failing of my brain and mouth. Wave your hand? Like this. We can be friends with one another and I can pretend that I know what I am doing.

[She waves again.]

[She doesn't wave her hand, but she taps her mouth, and then her chest. She makes a frustrated little sound. Why can't she understand? Why has this never happened before?]

I would teach you but I no longer understand how I learned it. Such is a mortal failing. I like that you're copying me, because maybe you'll copy me again now.

[And a big, bright smile as she picks up her tablet and walks around the room with it, showing her surroundings.]

Over here we have the desecrated furniture, and here is a hideous stain upon the floor. I wonder what hideous stains are in your room, hm?

[Except she seems more interested in seeing what there is to see on your end; sorry, Tess. She watches with rapt attention, tapping impatiently at the screen if Tess stops. Show her more!]

You know what you want, huh.

[Wouldst thou presume to command a goddess, child -- yeah, alright, Tess starts moving again. One of the things the view briefly pans over is a big mail bag with a coat stuffed inside; as Tess goes by the bag moves and RGBV pokes his nose out of the coat's folds, big forked tongue tasting the air. Tess doesn't seem to pay him any mind by the way she keeps going past.]

[Lilly gasps, and slaps the floor excitedly, trying to get her attention without actually having to use her words. Stop, stop! Let her see the... whatever that is.]

[Tess freezes, camera already panned past to where RGBV is out of frame. She looks at Lilly, then glances offscreen at -- ah, yeah, she sees him now. He's got his nose and an eye out, watching her in return. She suppresses a little grin as she very deliberately does not turn the camera back, but gives the screen an exaggeratedly confused look.]

You have a question?]

[She taps the screen a couple times, tilts her head this way and that.]

[It's an animal of some kind, she thinks - it's hard to see him, tucked away like that. She goes quiet, hunching down, and just stares.]

[Tess widens her eyes, hunches her shoulders, and stares back.]

[Lilly points to RGBV. What's that?]

[Tess looks around in apparent confusion, adjusting the position of her tablet this way and that.]

[She flicks out her little tongue in imitation of RGBV. That.]

[Come on, kid, give her a break. Tess sighs heavily, but fine. Fine, she'll show you the snake. She doesn't have it in her to withhold cool discoveries forever, not even when it's in the interest of trying to figure out Lilly's location to get her somewhere safe.]

Ugh. I accept my fate.

[She finally turns the tablet to where the camera's pointed at RGBV. He still has only his head poking out of the bag, and lazily flicks his tongue out again.]

[Lilly gets right up close to the tablet, braver because she knows it can't get to her. It looks like a snake - a very big, probably very dangerous snake.]

Bite?

[Tess comes into view herself again, expression confused. She doesn't know what you're saying, kid.]

Buh-hite?

Bite.

[Lilly's face hovers somewhere between a scowl and a look of interest. She's still confused and a little annoyed at this woman's weird words and lack of ability to understand her even when she does speak - but at the same time, she's kind of digging the role reversal. She lifts a hand and pretends to chomp on her own finger, saying slowly and exaggeratedly:]

Buy-tuh.

Edited 2018-02-22 20:03 (UTC)

Buy-tuh!

[Tess grins, snapping her jaw to make her teeth click. She relearned a word! From...a child. Okay. At least she can see the humor in the situation. She pauses to think about it, glancing at RGBV. It's actually kind of a complicated question to answer.

...Except by going over and poking him in the snoot, pressing her wrist against the front of his mouth to illustrate that no, she's not afraid of him biting her. RGBV tolerates this sans biting, as expected, but looks as offended as a serpent can look as he turns and coils into the bag to hide his face, glimpses of feathers visible at the bag's opening as he moves around.]

[Lilly's pretty much forgotten her original question, though, because she's on a roll. She's going to teach this lady some words. She digs into her bag, coming up with her newly acquired notebook and pen, and points to each item in turn.]

Pay-puh. Cray'n.

[Pen, crayon, same thing - at least as far as she's concerned. Crayons are the only writing instruments she'd been familiar with up until now, so she's overgeneralizing.]

[Well, it's not like Tess is in a position to correct her. She giggles when she catches on to what the girl is doing; all efforts to get her to move her godsdamned camera are forgotten as Tess flops down and makes herself comfortable against the wall.

She nods seriously. Unfortunately, she won't be able to extrapolate pronunciation beyond what Lilly gives her.]

Pay-puh. Crain.

Finger. Han. Awm.

[She points to each body part in turn, and then - finally - scrambles up and ends up kicking the camera by accident, sending it spinning across the floor. In the upper lefthand corner of the screen, half of a written message is visible: EYA CRESCENT, EDWARD ELRIC, DAY THIRTY, TRAVELLING NORTH. Lilly appears sporadically, running around the room and pointing at things - "Waw! Flow! Couch!" - but she hasn't yet intuited what the tablet's camera can and can't pick up. She can still see it, so she assumes it can see her.]

[Tess follows along dutifully, but when Lilly kicks the tablet Tess goes silent as she scrambles to take a screenshot. She can't read a word of that, but maybe someone else will recognize it, or be able to match it up with a building on that town guide. Breathing a sigh of relief, she picks back up on the 'conversation.']

Couch?

[She can't see what you're pointing at, kid.]

Edited 2018-03-01 23:13 (UTC)

Couch.

[She affirms, coming back into view as she peeks down at the tablet.]

Awwright?

[Tess nods, smiles.]

Couch, awwright.

[She points at herself.]

Tess.

[She points to herself in turn.]

Lilly. Girl.

Edited 2018-03-26 23:09 (UTC)

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