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YUM.

She exerts willpower to eat it like a human.  Slowly.  With the little trident.

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The servant watches for a bit to make sure she is not going to make some incredibly amateur mistake and then resumes her other activities.

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Cyllene is being really careful!  Once the meat is gone she remembers to figure out how to write 'thank you' on her slate and shows it to the servant.  Also wowwwww the meat was really good but the other two things are like nothing she's ever known and that's incredible.  Why do humans eat tiny oceans....  It's very cute.

In her practice she occasionally switches back to paper.  Using a pen is nearly a separate skill from chalk, and she needs to work at it too, and also there are some things she now has the capacity to tell Cymbeline.  (Writing is SO COOL, she can say a thing IN ADVANCE and it will STILL BE THERE, LATER.)

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Cymbeline shows up after lunch. "How's it going?"

"I had to show her how to eat."

"- oh, that stands to reason, thank you Jane."

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Cyllene waves and shows him her slate, which is full of swoops and curlicues of attempted grace.  And then passes him a paper.

My  name  is  Princess Cyllene  of  An Under-water Kingdom.

My Father the King  is so  very  bad.  He  hates humans.  I love  humans.   When  I saved  the  people in  your  boat,  he said , "Cyllene  must be  punished.  She  must not  do  that  again."  Many of  my family  sang  together  at me  so  that  any time  I  move  too away  from  his home  I will  feel bad pain.  By  swim, walk,  go on  knees, or  tell someone  to  take me  and  that person  does.  If  I do not  tell  or ask  a person,  and  I am  took,  I do not  hurt.

I  am so  joyful to  be here.  It is  very good,  of   many  things.

She also has a sheet that's just a list of words, containing many of those in her letter and a fair few besides.

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"...gosh. Your singing is magic? We weren't sure - Jane, put her chamber pot ocean-ward of the bed and the desk both - or do I misunderstand, does that not help -"

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She nods at the singing question, and then - if she rises and gestures him over, will he help her try and walk oceanward?

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He'll actually gesture Jane over to do it. "I'm not very good at balancing myself, let alone another person."

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Sure.

She doesn't bother to avoid putting her hand on Jane's arm, because hands are really useful for holding onto things and she's pretty sure she won't be inclined to tense up and hurt anyone, this time.

 

Walk.  Walk walk.  Walk.

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"Okay going in that direction?"

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Nod!

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"Oh good. I'll have someone find a little cart or something for you, that should help for non-oceanward movement."

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"...you might not know what a cart is. You might not know what wheels are. I'll show you when something appropriate is scared up."

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Nod.

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Off he goes to scare up some kind of cart.

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Nice.  Probably.

 

Although now she is a little bit stuck on this side of the room until someone helps her?

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As long as she's here Jane is going to explain the functions of the chamber pot, actually.

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Ohhhh.  Nod nod.

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Cymbeline is back with a wheelbarrow after not too long. He has filled it with clean straw so it's less awkward to sit in. "Probably the ideal would be to just put wheels on a chair but I don't know if they'll have that finished today."

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Huh...... sit?  Sit.

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Jane rolls her back to the desk.

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"There you go then. Jane can probably guess when you want to be at the desk or in bed and roll you there."

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She does still get ouched a little in the course of getting back into the desk chair, but maybe she'll get better at that in time.

- Oh, she wants to show Cymbeline something else, will he come over here?

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