first little voice

[notthehead]

[with the aid of a handy-dandy legionnaire's ring for broadcasting purposes, Chey's giving this whole speaking audibly thing a shot. not just that - in Universal Game Language™ (presumably English but who even knows

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voice;

[uponhiseye]

[Oh hey, this sounds familiar.]

Is your name Chey?

[notthehead]

[a mesh of subdued sounds, fishing for the proper words in UGL.]

Yyyes, Chey is me...[nnnnthink.] Milen isspeaking?

[uponhiseye]

Yes! It's me--[correction] Milen speaking.

Are you okay?

[notthehead]

Iamm...learn...[hrm--] learning words. Big people use...and hear me?

[uponhiseye]

How come, Chey? [Didn't big people hear you before...]

[notthehead]

Iun...nn. Un-derstand this words not. Withoutseal.

[uponhiseye]

[whut whut]

You don't understand words without your seal?

[notthehead]

[beat.]

Yes. [ss. man. WHY ARE ALL THESE WORDS SO SHORT.]

[uponhiseye]

Oh. I didn't know that. [AND NOW I DO YAY]

So you're learning, now! How'd you do it?

[notthehead]

Stein.

And booksto...see words are here.

[uponhiseye]

[Booksto...what?]

Huh?

[notthehead]

[HUH.

swallow. uttermutter.]

Books. [that's the right word IT HAS TO BE HE SAID IT LIKE 80 TIMES IN PRACTICE.] I see words...inbooks.

[uponhiseye]

Oh -- you read. Right?

[notthehead]

...Yes. Read. Seewords and read.

[uponhiseye]

That's really cool. [Kya.] Do you think we could learn your language too, though?

[notthehead]

[boy he hopes 'cool' is a good thing in big people slang. THIS ARE HARD.]

Klovodokaravi is...[wordwordword...] long...than big words.