"That's great," she says, genuinely pleased that he's written something in Ravkan. "I think learning someone's language... really lets you know who they are. What their culture is like. Fjerda, the country to the north, their language doesn't have a grammatical number. It means a word can be both plural and singular. I think it's because they're such a collectivist society... they believe that everything comes from and goes back to Djel, the Wellspring. That the needs of one never outweighs the needs of the group."