Oh, it's an Oriental language. The country is south of China, to the east, so on the coast. It's a pretty country... I lived there for about two years, so I learned a bit of the language. Not too much, since the upper classes mostly spoke French and English, but I learned enough to get by.

[She makes a thoughtful noise, thinking of something to say, but then settles on something simple,] Nó là tốt đẹp để đáp ứng bạn, "it's nice to meet you." It's very different! And I was never really good at reading it, but it's not as hard as other Oriental languages, like Chinese. I tried to learn that once, but it was too difficult. I need an alphabet, you know?