Room 202, Saturday Afternoon

[amicia_the_amazon]

Amicia would have liked to have said she had fully adjusted to her new situation, but that would be a lie. She had not adjusted to any situation in at least half a year, since her hyperawareness had given way to this... in-between life.

She had gone to the classes she had been told to go to. The rest of the time, bar infrequent trips to get something to eat, she had been here. In her room. Curled up on the bed, unsure of what to do with herself without the immediate need to procure food or water, tend to a garden, ensure her home wasn't cold (how was it warm here? She did not understand).

On Saturday afternoon, though, something in her mind had gently uncurled. She had opened the door, gone out to get a drink and something to eat-- and left the door open when she'd returned to her room.

She sat on her bed now, staring at the window. Trying to find a further way out of this fog.

[[ open door, open post. ]]

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[wildgalegirl]

There was a knock on her open door and a Charlie in the doorway. "Hey," Charlie said cheerfully. "Do you like pie?"

[amicia_the_amazon]

That was... sudden. Amicia didn't even have time to hear the English correctly.

"Pardon?" she said, looking up.

[wildgalegirl]

"Hi," Charlie said. "I'm Charlie and you're new and I brought pie to say hello and welcome. If you like pie."

[amicia_the_amazon]

Amicia scrambled for her phone. "Pie," she mumbled, until she hit the translation app, and--

"Yes," she said, looking up. "Pie is okay."

She wasn't hungry, but she knew better than to be rude.

[wildgalegirl]

Charlie stepped into the room and offered an only lightly charmed pie - just a 'keep your room clean'. "It's nice to meet you," Charlie said. She saw her looking up the app and considered telling her she had a charm that would let her understand, but maybe that was a conversation for another day.

[scarlet_and_indigo]

TJ saw the open door and smiled, hoping her little sister was finally coming out of her shell.

"Amicia?" she asked, sticking her head in the door.

[amicia_the_amazon]

Not out of her shell, no. Amicia was still sitting on her bed, and only at the sound of another voice did she look away from the window. "Oui?"

[scarlet_and_indigo]

"Bonjour," TJ said, waving. "Comment allez-vous?" Please, please let her google French not be too bad.

[amicia_the_amazon]

Amicia frowned at her. "Tu peux me tutoyer," she said, faintly confused by the formal form.

But she remembered about the phone a moment later, and reached for it. "I can use-- this," she said, a little stiff, and poked around at the pictures.

[scarlet_and_indigo]

"I...what?" The only word of that TJ had gotten was "tu".

"Sorry, I've been trying to learn, but I haven't gotten too far." She smiled at the phone. "Oh, good! Do you have a translation app?" She held out her own phone to show the app that currently said How are you? on the top and Comment allez-vous? on the bottom.

She pulled it back long enough to type in translation app and get... "Vous avez un application de traduction?"

[amicia_the_amazon]

Amicia said something to her own phone, but what came out was, 'You don't have to call me you'.

She sighed.

"Not vous," she tried. "Tu. Vous is... older. Important." She leaned into the phone again to speak. She held it up, and the metallic voice said dutifully, "It is meant to be used to speak to your elders and your betters. I am neither."

[scarlet_and_indigo]

"Oh!" TJ grinned. "I saw something about that, but I wasn't sure. Which app is that?"

She took a look at the name and started downloading it; that would be more handy than typing all the time.

"So, how are you is...'comment allez-tu'?"

Look, she was trying.

[amicia_the_amazon]

Amicia made a noise that, charitably, could be called 'amused'. (It was largely tired, if not by TJ, specifically.) "Ça va," she said.

[scarlet_and_indigo]

Well, she'd take a laugh and a so-so answer; that was probably really good with all the culture shock.

The new app finished downloading, and she checked it and quickly set it to English-to-French.

"Anything I can help with?" she asked it, holding it up for the French to play.