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[This is technically a video post. The visual's of nothing - just a space of ceiling. The voice that it catches is obvious enough, though - tense and restrained with some hesitance, self-consciousness, and - what might be something a little more tentatively happy.]

Uh -- ...Hello. -- This is - Anthony Janvier. Erm - please - excuse me...

[That trail-off is into a quick hoarse, thin, nervous breath - and then speech. Not in English - but halting Latin. To anyone who'll know it it boils down to "Can you tell what I am speaking? Am I using it correctly?"

He picks back up in English hastily.]

I-I think - I learned. Latin... -- In case it - may be helpful. For - anything... - E -- 'xcuse me again please.

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[ahh, that B.A. in Classics is coming in handy. in spoken Latin, peppered with bits of English--]

Latin, like you said. But either your syntax is a little off or ... just keep talking, ok? [something about it doesn't quite mesh with the rules of the Classical Latin she knows. Stupid Medieval Latin, grumble, grumble.] I can understand you just fine.

[He's being spoken to in Latin. And - yes, he thinks he's catching it, more or less, with a little of double-thinking...]

...A - all right...! -- Uhmm -- ... [Drat what to say -

Picks up - still halting - in Latin again.] I will... Er.

The person in my visions is from the -- eighth - century -- or - perhaps the ninth. -- I'm not sure if I'm -- speaking it - properly...

[still in Latin...]

It's probably right for the period. I wasn't taught Medieval Latin, so I'm not sure.

Try to relax.

Salve. Puella aquam portat. Amo amas amat. I didn't know you spoke Latin, Rachel. You can help out Anthony like this.

I studied English and Classics in school. Dós orkheísthai toúto metá soí? [trying not to laugh on her end. suddenly hoping Brooke doesn't really have a grasp on Ancient Greek.]

I can try, at least.

That's all Greek to me, but I'm just going to say yes, because I know how your brain works and you're probably asking me something I'd eventually agree to anyway.

You echoed a whole language?

[This is like the most useful echo that she's heard of so far. Gimme.]

[He does not want to boast. He does not want to boast. But he is actually very happy with this fact...]

I have Echoed two, actually! However, I do not know if my first one has been preserved... I think that my knowledge of it is more complete, but I can't use it. I am not the only one who has learned languages through pulses!

How can you not use it if your knowledge of it is more complete?

It seems like the pulses try to make up for what else they gave to you.

[[and replying in Late Egyptian just because he can]]

Welcome to the Numbers as a Second Language club~

[[and back to English because he's not a total ass]]

Next time I run across an old book written in Latin I'm tossing it your way. I think I had like.. two of them at one point when I was trying to look up those symbols of yours that I couldn't read. I'm gonna try and track them down again.

[He was trying to play along and come up with some manner of appropriate retort to the Egyptian with Latin - is too slow, winds up saying "You are?" in Latin and correcting himself - ] -- You are -- ?

[Going to try to find books in Latin, he means!]

I found a translated version of one of them, but much better to have it read in the original language, right? Even if there wasn't much useful in it.... Anything that might help.

Latin, hm?

[ He knows far from enough of it to actually translate the words, but he could hear what it was. ]

I -- think so - yes, sir. My, er... -- "other" - self... lived in the Holy Roman Empire. -- I think I know his - first -- language, also.

Hm. I think that's the first previous life that is clearly close to the world as we know it, that I've heard of here.

Possibly, anyway.

Huh. That's pretty nifty!

How'd it come up?

-- Oh, er - [Taking on a lighter tone, though it's still hoarse - sheepishly, politely friendly.] -- I erm -- learned it while - ...I learned it last night...! Helping - with - the -- expedition... - I realized I'd learned it - thinking -- of one of my visions. Someone -- in it was speaking - Latin.

Oh, you were at the expedition too? Great!

What a useful skill to have show up!

[ she's trying to pick it apart, too, but it's been so long since she's used it...] No, it... doesn't sound quite right. Compared to what I learned in high school, at least.

[ there's a strange sort of focus on it, half-remembering high school and university, half-remembering... something else. the kind of frustration a person gets, trying to remember something like this, something they should know and just can't remember.

and she knows she's been in this position before. ]

Anthony, maybe recite... ah, do you know how to say a Hail Mary?

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[Halts.

A "Yes, ma'am" or not wasting any time on proceeding... Not wasting any time on proceeding -

He recites one quickly if mumblingly in the uncertainty of saying it this quickly, with a stutter in one point, but apart from that it comes out cleanly.]

- Was that -- uhm -- [No, he can't talk as if he assumes it was right, she'd just said it didn't sound quite in line with the Latin she learned - ] -- How-how did that sound - ? Should I -- ...say it again - ?

[After all how very often does one hear only one Hail Mary at a time.]

Oh, I just-

[ she understood it, started mouthing it herself as he spoke it. only one was necessary. ]

No... no, I'm sorry, that's right. I just- I just remembered it myself.

I'm not even Catholic...

[Brooke's studied enough western religion to know Latin when she hears it, but not enough to decipher what he's saying.]

That's Latin, all right. In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti and all that. You echoed it back? That's pretty cool. Any idea why, though? It seems... well, you could echo back obscurer languages, probably.

-- Uh -- [He freezes up on it striking him that he's not alluded to the setting of his visions in any conversation they've had - but trips on her follow-up comment. Knocks out a small, very sheepish hoarse single-exhale laugh.] ...I, erm -- actually - have - echoed an - a more obscure one. The -- other me 's from the - Holy Roman - Empire... I've er - already had a vision that mentioned Charlemagne...

[Tone's light and reserved.]

Charlemagne? Like, the king? Wow. I think you might be the oldest guy around here. That's actually kind of cool. I forget, have you ever wanted to be a historian? Because I'm pretty sure you've got everything you need to be the best one in existence.

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