...Nod.  She's getting faster at tapping - 'all, my, know, is, from, family.'

"Yeah. Your nonbad uncle - does he have a name - didn't say anything either way about there being other sea-people countries?"

Headshake. 

Jupider?

"Jupider?" That doesn't sound right.

Headshake.

Jupidder
Jupiter

"Ju-pit-ter."

Nod.

...She adds a 'Prince' at the top of the list of spellings.

"I do wonder if you have - recognizable royalty, it seems like you do but maybe it just seems like that because you're using the Loegrian words. I'm a prince because my parents are the king and queen. They're the king and queen because my mother's aunt and uncle, the previous king and queen, died without an heir, when my mother's mother was already dead. I'm going to be the next king but if something happens to me Zoyah's husband would be the next king instead. She doesn't have one yet, I'm not married yet either. If we both died it would fall to one of my distant cousins who don't live in this country."

She wants to take some time to compose a message about that, apparently.

Legit.

Most  sea people  are not  so magic.   They have  almost none.   Many  father-children  ago, my  father's father's father  many times back, worked to  make  his  children  have more magic.  Each  father  in my family  does this.   My old family  starts  as  leader of  a family,  then some  other familys  together,  then more and more until rule  all sea people in a  big place.

Then, go to other places.  Sometimes with  another  king,  and  kill him  if he will not listen  to my family.  Eat him.  His  country is my family's country.  Many times.

To sea people,  any child of  a  king is a  prince  or princess.  A child of a  prince or  princess is another word.  My father  has only women children  but  one of us  will be queen  if he dies  or  wants to not  be king.  Royal sea people  die only  if hurt very  bad.  I am the  best magic  of my  father's  children,  some because I am  the most  young but  much because  I love  magic.  My  sisters  love to win, but they do not  love to  do winning like I do.

I could be queen,  but I hate the King.  I hate  to win by eating  other sea  people instead  of by saving  humans  from a boat.  My bad family says that I do not have enough want.  They're wrong.  I want so much more than them,  maybe all them together.  But I do not want the same things.

"Cannibalism! Great!"

"I mean, the real problem there is that somebody's dead, it's not like it's an improvement on their prognosis for them to be eaten by whatever ocean scavengers there are."

'more bad to eat someone'

"Why's that?"

...........'bad on purpose'  'winning'  'eat is less bad than kill'  'kill and eat is bad on purpose and winning'

"I'm not sure I get what you mean by 'winning'."

She flips through the books some but doesn't find any words that satisfy her.  Shrug.

"I guess if people are spending a lot of time hungry in the sea then it's bad to have the extra motivation to kill somebody?"

"Or sea people do not already agree with the logical ethical principle you just made up five minutes ago."

"Yes, I suppose it could be that."

Giggle.

'Princess Cyllene'????  'to you.'

"Sounds like you're a princess, yes, at least as much as any foreign country has them."

Finally time for the note she wrote while Kerem was getting fetched?

My good uncle  helped me come  here.  His magic  is different than  my magic.  He made me  human and made a  trade for my voice  against  I  can know  all language I hear, or see, I now know.   He did not want  me to  make this  trade  but he more wants  me to have what  I want.  Without him,  I would have died.

He may learn a way to  return me  my voice.  I will sometimes  watch out in case  he tries  to talk to me.

"...yet a third kind of magic or does he do the kind we do?"