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Tasia grinned even broader, waving back, and clumsily tripped over the 'nice to meet you' in Akarataran that Gaius had taught Aashi. She had no concept of how languages worked, ...

"Like Ky," Tasia repeated firmly, wiggling down out of Tadaaki's arms as she turned back towards Ua and gave her a broad grin."Hi! My name's Tasia!"

"Oh! You're adopting her?" Tasia said. "Like Ky?"

Pratik smiled down at her as they passed, giving a nod. "Wait who's that?!" Tasia demanded, turning around in Tadaaki's arms to look at the girl.

"We'd like to share one, please," Tadaaki answered. Pratik was paying more attention to Ky now. She was doing a good job of masking how she felt -- on the ...

Zander nodded to him. Tadaaki and his family started after Gaius, but Ky waited anxiously by Zander's door. She knew better than to argue. But she didn't understand. And it ...

"Alright," Zander said, inclining his head. Ky looked at him anxiously, still not sure why Gaius was doing this. Was Zander in trouble? What had he ever done wrong? He'd ...

"Looks wonderful, thank you," Zander murmured, stepping inside and taking his cloak off. He hung it neatly on the hook by the door and turned back towards the group, not ...

Ky was very silent. "I'd be interested to hear more about it as well," Zander commented in Akarataran, nodding in agreement.

Ky also glanced at Gaius. What an odd situation this was. It felt like when Zander used to keep silly secrets with her; only instead of keeping Papa from knowing ...

"What's a myfth?" Tasia asked. "It's a story people tell that's not true," Tadaaki explained. "Oh! Like, like, um, the man Mattathias and Marcella knows?" Tasia asked, rubbing her hair ...

"You can't play with toads or they make you all warty," Tasia said firmly.

Tasia basically climbed Tadaaki at that point, scrambling up higher in his arms so that she was essentially sitting on his chest rather than on his hip. "This is my ...

"Um...." Tasia hesitated for a long moment, confronted with the fact that she still wasn't fully sure how reading worked. "... frogs?" Pratik had been watching the exchange with a ...

"Books!" Tasia announced proudly. "They've got stories in them!"