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Aaylas'ecura waved back even more shyly, but looking between the two her eyes began to widen at the mystery that was happening here.
"See, I told you she could see you!" Harry said looking up at his mother in triumph.
Lily rolled her eyes and nodded. "All right Harry I believe you, now what are you going to do?"
"This." Harry said with a grin, and teleported through the bars with only a faint pop. His mother gaped at him, shaking her head in astonishment. Harry was really, really good at that, he hadn't even had to concentrate for long now that he could actually see what was in front of them. Oh sure, teleporting like that at so short a distance isn't anything to write home about, but he's very young to be so good at it already.
Aaylas'ecura backed away quickly, her mouth opened but the boy gestured for silence again and pulled out from a bag what looked like a children's reader. Aaylas'ecura cocked her head, watching as the boy pointed at it and his mouth saying something in a language she didn't know.
"I can't speak the local dialect, so I'm trying to teach myself." Harry said conversationally, keeping his tone light and conversational, knowing that the girl must've been frightened by his sudden show of magic. "I was wondering if you'd like to help?"
"Harry she can't understand you." Lily rolled his eyes.
"I know," Harry replied "but I think she can point and say things can't she?"
Lily nodded, thinking it a very inefficient way of you learning a new language, but they were really at their wits end right now and she was impressed and proud of Harry's problem solving skills. One more sign that he is not the average wizard.
The boy opened the picture book, pointing at the first picture and saying a word. The picture was that of a food animal, and Aaylas'ecura frowned, before understanding dawned. "You can't speak Ryl?" she asked aloud, watching as the boy stared at her blankly. She switched to Galactic Standard, which she was learning, and spoke hesitantly in that language. Still nothing. But then where did he come from? Everyone from off-world speaks Galactic Standard, don't they?
Still she understood now what he was asking. And said "that is a Rycrit, Rycrit!" she repeated pointing at the picture.
The boy smiled lopsidedly, and Aaylas'ecura found herself smiling back. This is kind of fun!
He put the puncture put down, and slapped his chest saying "Harry."
Aaylas'secura did the same to her own chest "Aaylas'secura."
The boy frowned trying to say her name as two different names, then saying hesitantly "Aalya, Aayylaa, Aayla?"
The girl nodded. "Close enough." She'd been told humans tended to do that, taking apart the two portions of the Twi'lek name as they did their own.
Harry nodded "Aayla." Then he gestured at himself and the ghost woman and said "Human."
That took a bit more time before Aayla got it and she nodded tapping her own chest again. "Twi'lek."
Harry smiled again, raising a thumbs up gesture to her to which Aayla did the same. Then she looked around, wondering why no one else was hearing this. The boy smirked, seemingly understanding what she was wondering, and wiggled his fingers. Suddenly underneath his fingers there appeared a small furry thing of some kind.
At first Aayla thought it was an animal and backed away quickly, but it didn't move and the boy picked it up, tossing it to toward her. She caught it cautiously, feeling it's fur against her hands, and giggled a little. "It's furry!" she exclaimed, holding it up to her face and rubbing her face against it for a moment.
Harry watched her with a smile on his face, then gestured around. Harry teleported back through the doorway, then back again into the small cell. "Magic."
Aayla looked at him thoughtfully then shrugged her shoulders. Such things were children's stories, but she understood what he was trying to say. So she nodded her head. "Whatever you say, strange human Harry." She smiled, her lekkus' tips waving excitedly. Whatever this was, it was a lot more fun than simply going to sleep or playing on the reader her master allowed her.
The boy smiled, not understanding her words but her tone. Tone and body language were the same for humans and Twi'leks, only missing the subtle gestures of the tentacles that were in point of fact a whole other language on their own. Still humans didn't have tentacles, poor things, so couldn't be asked to know about them.
He turned to the ghost woman, and began to speak in that language that Aayla couldn't follow. "What do you think mum, should we take her with us? Or should we just keep coming back every night?"
"What do you mean take her with us?" Lily asked.
"Well she's a slave isn't she, she'd want to be free right? And I can find enough food for the both of us easily enough."
Lily nodded thoughtfully, also understanding this would be a chance for them to strike back in a small way against what they thought of as a great wrong: the fact that slavery was so pervasive here. "I suppose, and she is a magic user, she can see me easily enough, and she's able to talk to you too before you put up that silencing spell." Harry had figured out how to create his own version of a muggle repelling charm easily enough. "All right, but teleporting between the bars with another person is going to be a lot more difficult Harry."
Harry nodded, then turned back to Aayla who'd been watching the conversation but unable to follow it. He gestured at the book that he had brought along, then at himself then at Aayla, moving his fingers back and forth between the two of them. "You teach me this," he said gesturing down to the book again "and I'll get you out," he went on, gesturing out past the bars.
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