"How fast do you read or write?" It's a language, the flow of fingers from shape to shape, and the flow of a pen from shape to shape aren't that different. It's merely a matter of what one's been doing a lot of in their life. Bay's body has done this for a decade, longer probably. But she can't be sure if having two parents changed her learning to sign from when Daphne learned as a child. And of the two of them Bay's got a better head for language.

Still, Bay repeats the fingerspelling at a more reasonable speed. Just in case Inej is trying to follow. Also, maybe, to keep her attention and keep looking at her because Bay definitely is trying to figure out why her body is focusing on that.

"I don't really know a lot about the Cities or Solvunn," she's uneasy saying Solvunn, and her pronunciation is clearly that of 'girl who has read the name and has no idea how it's pronounced.' She knows the rough politics of Thorne internally, as she would really love it if the College were open to them but no, internal hissy fits with the crown prevent that! "Still, I think I'm where I belong. Having ready access to art supplies and books, and the mages in the castle have answers to help me without some of the devices I use from home."