( with a self-deprecating laugh— hers has become conversational, even fluent in these past years, but it remains primly accented, shades of the same way that something like but not orlesian shapes her vowels and the cadence of her speech in trade, )

I will call it serviceable, by now. I have been lucky in my opportunities to expand my knowledge, and I had recently despaired of finding a new conversation partner that I might — remain serviceable.

( she has not quite james flint's way of speaking the language, the way it seemed to come from some rumbling place in his chest, a slow, sibilant thing— but perhaps it is still reflected, there, that she has spoken tevene most frequently with educated pirates and not gentlemen of the imperium's circles. )

It is a beautiful language, besides its strategic import.