Before Rea could speak a word to Lith,
"Could you give me and my daughter some time?"
Lith puffed her cheeks, but ended up standing up with a shrug and walking away.
"That's a strange friend you got yourself." Rea's mother muttered as she watched Lith walk away. "Is she mute? She seems perfectly capable of understanding our language."
"She's not mute." Rea answered, not bothering to stand. "She can't understand language, but she can understand us."
"How does that work exactly?" She asked, standing over her daughter.
"She can understand us through our tone and facial expressions." Unbothered, Rea lay back down on the grass. "At first, I thought it might be lip-reading, but she couldn't understand me blindfolded. Then I tried to noise-canceling headphones, and that didn't work either. The words we utter don't matter much. She understands through tones and physical cues."
"I see. An interesting friend then."
Rea frowned as her mother took a seat on the grass.
