Please don't learn Russian, Sora. That would just be weird. It's nice, as it is, not having many people in town who know it. Feels safer. Try French or Mandarin instead, they can still help you practice.

"Yes. It is." Soldat knows two more of the Words now. Still don't now what they do, but they know them. There's seven, now, locked up tight in the back of their mind. Still incomplete. Still unknowably dangerous.

They finally uncurl and take the notebook back, closing it up. They're almost to the end of their allowed time here. Supposed to go home to sleep. (Or not sleep, as the case may be.) The empty cabin sounds horrible and haunting, though, so they ask, "Want me to walk you home?"