Page 103 of Culture and Curiosities
The bond.
“You bonded? With one of our people from Earth?”
Wren seemed pleased that general confusion was the only reaction we were getting. His fears of us not being accepted were turning out to be unfounded so far.
“Yes. It was unexpected but they are able to make strong bonds and did not lose that knowledge. Understand that a lot of other information, both cultural and magical, was not passed down for a variety of reasons.”
I knew he’d come back to that point later, but for the time being he stayed on track.
“I know our people will be glad that they did not lose the ability to bond.”
His words were careful but his eyes kept darting between the humans and I knew he was ready to ask countless questions.
“I and the others are looking forward to getting their language so we can speak to them more easily.”
That brought us to another issue.
“The spell gives a full accounting of the language…including what we would see as…mate-related topics. It has been discussed and they decided that the language should not be given by a spell to someone considered too young to understand the physical aspects of bonding.”
And eyes went wide again.
Hmm.
Some were clearly shocked and others seemed intrigued.
“I think some of your friends here are going to end up being friends with the diner men, Daddy.”
I wasn’t sure how I felt about the possibility of him being correct.
Chapter 27
Wren
This was so much fun.
“Toman just told them about all the dirty stuff the language spell is going to give everyone.” As they all did their best to either not giggle or not roll their eyes, I kept my voice as quiet as I could. “He’s being careful about it, though, but some of them are really curious.”
That had several people from Earth coughing to try to hide their laughter which just made the fairly blank-looking aliens even more confused.
Had they never seen outside laughter and just had happy feelings on the inside?
I’d always thought Daddy was kind of blank-faced but I’d been wrong. He’d definitely been working really hard to give us facial expressions. Most of the aliens were so blank they were almost like watching Data from Next Generation.
As most of the aliens blinked at Daddy like they weren’t sure they were processing things right, I spoke up and did my best to sound professional.
Or as Daddy said…like Pierce.
“Don’t forget to explain that we have people who can come teach English the slow way to kids who want to learn.” Thelanguage spell was just going to give all the fun parts of English way too soon. “I’m pretty sure they’ll understand it better once one of them gets the magic kind of English.”
We were colorful fuckers.
They were not…at least not yet.
We all waited as Daddy spoke up, the native language sounding weird after only knowing Earth languages. A few of us had heard some of the words because some mages used it when they worked magic, but yeah, no one had heard enough to have a conversation in it.
Did anyone on Earth speak the original language any longer?
As Daddy and the professor talked politely around what kind of nonsense we were talking about, I whispered in English again. “They’re still being really polite and Toman is trying not to talk about kinks and stuff because I don’t think any of that will make sense until they get it all at once.”
