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Hey there. If you've got time, I promised to show you how to use the tablet.

[Lilly is a little disoriented after what happened last night, but she answers, peeking at him onscreen. Remembering something that Squalo had told her, she waves to him, and then immediately flips the tablet over, giving him a nice view of the floor. Look, she can hide herself even when the video is running!]

[...]

[Okay, that's pretty successful hiding, but not exactly helpful right now.]

You kind of need to see the screen for this, Lilly. I'm going to be showing you some pictures.

[She lifts the corner of the tablet, giving him a glimpse of just the barest hint of light. Pictures, you say? Go on.]

[There we go. That's good enough for him. He doesn't necessarily need to see her, though that would be nice. But she does need to be able to see him.]

I found my friends. One of them let me borrow their tablet for this, see?

[He aims the camera on his tablet toward a tablet on the floor.]

This way I can show you how to do some things. Like this. Have you tried tapping this picture in the text function yet?

[Lilly can see him navigating to the function that will change text to speech. He'll start off with important things, while he's sure he's still got her attention.]

[The meaning of "text function" goes over her head, but she can follow along with him on video, at least. She copies him and taps it, though she still has no understanding of what it does.]

[He can't be sure, of course, since he can only see a little bit of what she's doing, but he'll wait while it looks like she's going through the steps to activate the text-to-speech function.]

Good, let's see if that did the trick.

[It should, unless she touched a different icon or her tablet's broken. Either way, he's going to switch to text.]

Next time someone says something in text like this on the network, now you'll know what they're saying.

[He can only imagine that that must be frustrating.]

[He'll hear it from her end, being read in a robotic computer voice, and she definitely hears it too - she furrows her brow and leans in, confused. She doesn't get that it's still him talking to her and not somebody else, or that the words the voice is saying match up to the marks on the screen - again, that's the lack of familiarity with writing and words like "text function" coming into play here. She's picked up on what the network is, at least.]

Tex?

[Because seriously, what does that mean.]

Look at your tablet. Do you see the letters on it? The lines and circles that don't look like pictures of anything? That's text. Those are words. And that button you pressed told your tablet to say them out loud to you. That's the voice you're hearing.

[He switches back to video now.]

It's not my voice, but those are my words. You can see my user name next to them, the word I showed you before to tell you how to contact me.

[He picks up the other tablet and types out his username so she can see: @standardissue.]

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[Her eyes light up with understanding. Words she knows, and now she has two more terms for it - letters, text - as well as a bit more of an understanding of why those markings are everywhere. She'd noticed them before, after coming out of the woods, but had never cared to find out more about them. She still doesn't care a lot now, honestly - there are more interesting things to be curious about and explore - but it's still one puzzling mystery solved.

She runs a finger along her tablet's keyboard, typing up a string of nonsense: sdfghl;lkjhgfdsaw. Then she enables the text to voice function and sends it on to him, interested in what it'll do.]

[The tablet does the best it can, honestly, but given what it's been provided... Still, Kunsel can't help but smile at the gibberish that spits out at his end. Maybe Lilly doesn't know how to read or write, but she's clearly demonstrating that she understands.]

Right. That's exactly how it works. Unfortunately, it only works with letters that are in an order that your tablet recognizes. It can't read your mind. I could try to teach you how to write, if that's something you decided you wanted, but I figure this will work well enough for now.

You got any questions?

[The result makes her giggle, at least! But she shakes her head in response to his question. She's good. Learning to write is for squares.]

[He is absolutely not surprised by that answer. There are plenty of six year olds out there who aren't exactly keen on writing. And right now? In the situation they're in? It's not exactly a high priority.

Besides, she's armed with what she needs to communicate. That's good enough for now. Kunsel grins cheerfully back, then turns his tablet camera back on the other tablet.]

Oh, there's one more thing! This is something I think you'll like. Watch this.

[Watch carefully, Lilly, because he's going to show you how to activate the tablet's Paint program. And then he's going to draw her a picture of a dog. He's not a great artist by any stretch of the imagination, but it should at least be recognizable.]

[That is pretty cool. She has paper and a pen, but she's going to end up really liking all the color options on the tablet's program, once she gets used to them. She lands a finger on the thought bubble and the bone inside, not that Kunsel will be able to tell that that's what she's pointing at specifically.]

Wassat?

[Nope, he can't tell what she's pointing at, other than the fact that she's pointing to her screen.]

That's a dog, and it's thinking about a bone. A lot of dogs like to chew on bones.

You ever seen a dog?

[Hey, it's possible she hasn't.]

[She nods. It didn't look anything like that, though. She scribbles out a quick drawing of her own on paper, then shows it to him - it's a long and short dog, that might be recognizable as a dachshund despite her lack of artistic skills.]

[Kunsel's expression lightens visibly with recognition.]

Ah, that's a wiener dog. A dachshund, if you want to be technical, but I always liked the other name better as a kid. I thought it was funny. I made jokes about hot dogs all the time.

[Does Lilly even know what a hot dog is?

~~If she doesn't, don't tell Zell.~~]

Weinewdog.

[She nods sagely. Sure, that works. But she also knows another word - the name that Victoria had used for the one in the house they'd stayed in.]

Handsome.

[It really is odd to hear her pronounce some words perfectly while others she just seems to trip over. There's a story behind that, he's sure, but he's not so sure Lilly's capable of or willing to tell it.

Well, regardless, it's not her fault, and the best way to learn is to hear other people speak. Better still if it's a conversation she's actively involved in.]

Yup, a wiener dog, and that's a pretty handsome one indeed. You must have seen one a lot if you can draw one this well. Do you have a dog back home?

Victoria.

[She jabs a finger at the drawing again.]

Handsome. Victoria's.

[Understanding dawns.]

Victoria has a dog she calls Handsome.

[Nod nod nod. Victoria had known him when she was very small, before the woods and before Mama, during the time that Lilly doesn't remember. But she doesn't feel like explaining all that, and so she doesn't.]

Donlike dog.

[She doesn't hate him or anything, but he's a little annoying, and she usually pays him no mind.]

[Hm. Not a dog person. That's... Actually, so far, that may be the most normal thing about Lilly he's seen so far. Normal - and maybe...]

What about cats? Do you like cats, Lilly?

[Kindred spirit here?]

Cat?

[Spoken like someone who has no idea what he's talking about.]

[Lilly, you poor, deprived child.

Hang on just a moment while he goes to find Mochi. It's just easier to explain a purring ball of fluff with video.]

Cat.

[She frowns slightly as she peers at the screen, but ultimately agrees:]

Cat.

[Animals that hang around people so easily are weird.]

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