Bay has been thinking about teaching more people to sign, the problem in her head is one of language barriers. It would be easy to teach it how she learned it, how she really learned it not this alternate version of her did. Slowly, sign by sign in little conversations. But a cornerstone of the language is cultural, which is the problem. "I can try, it'll be harder if you don't know English. The other language from my home. Since the fingerspelling is based on that. And my brain hasn't connected Abraxan quite that way."

Bay being perpetually aware the spoken language isn't anyone's native tongue. But what they learned in their arrival here, a huge advantage to getting everyone to work together, and a massive attack on everyone's individual identities. Solvunn is an Abraxan word, but Free Cities was spelled in English. Those little distinctions.

"I wish there wasn't so much animosity that I can't just day trip across the border." Even with all the tricks of magic to make travel easier. How to get to Nochwich they just bypass days of sea travel or crossing the Feywilds, using a portal. But can't do the same to get to a local university, or travel to a hostile power's art town. "I'd love it if you showed me around, if you could."

Bay don't bat your eyelashes after that it wasn't a good date idea.