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" - yes, I do. I will get my Rebecca first, though."
"They'll give you all Allspeak and I bet he already got it for her - my translation thing. So you can speak any language. Makes the transition way easier." She shakes her head a bit despairingly at the screen. "He's so dramatic."
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They're kind of all staring at the pictures. One of the twins has a similar shade of pink hair and is tugging on her pigtail.
"You paid when you placed the order."
"My treat," Tannelë says. "I can expense it. One platter feeds four, but this way you'll have leftovers."
Everything platters, perhaps predictably, have fourteen little mini entrees! Some of them are delicious and some of them are a little weird.
Tannelë shows them how to message people and how to direct-message people - "which goes to our chips and plays in our heads, so you mostly want to keep it short -" and where the train station is and where the grocery store is - "I'll be back in the morning and I'd be happy to take you, but if you want to try going out - is there anything else you'll need tonight? There are toiletries in the bathrooms -"
"- possibly not. And they're labelled but you haven't got Allspeak yet. Okay, this is soap and this is shampoo and this is toothpaste -"
And she tells them not to hesitate to interrupt her even in the middle of the night, and she leaves.
"We relocated a couple hundred people today," Macalaurë says to Peka that evening. "The plan was to explain everything over internet forums in advance so they knew what to expect and could vote on it and choose where to relocate to and feel like they had control over things, but this one country had already driven their reds out of one district and they were starving in the mountains -"
Snuggle. "Yeah - I think they'll settle in okay -" shiver, hug - "I don't know how they live with themselves."
