The teacher Amber and the boy Jadain worked in tandam, trying to teach
Fae'Rhee to speak.

Jadain translated for Amber, <The first thing we are going to teach you is
your name. Fae'Rhee>

Fae'Rhee looked confused.

<Watch Amber's lips do what they do> Jadain said helpfully.

"Fae'Rhee," said the teacher Amber, pronouncing it slowly.

Fae'Rhee did as told, mouthing the word but no sound came out.

"NA!!!!!" she hollered in frustration.

<Well, at least we know your voice works,> chuckled Jadain. 

Fae'Rhee looked at him sternly. 

<I'm sorry,> said Jadain and Fae'Rhee could tell he meant it.

Amber decided to try another tactic and took hold of Fae'Rhee's hand and
placed her hand over her mouth before speaking. "Fae'Rhee," Amber tried
again with the wild woman's fingers over her mouth.

Fae'Rhee felt fear when she felt the woman's mouth open. Jerking her hand
away with a cry of shock and fear she turned and fled out the door.

She ran until she got back to the apartment she was currently sharing with
Dyanisa. She entered the room and sat in a corner, hands about her knees,
rocking and glaring about her angrily. She sat there for some time, on her
guard and rocking. Her eyes continually darting about.

Dyanisa had brought in food for lunch but Fae'Rhee angrily refused to eat.
She just continued to sit and stare and rock.

Eventually it grew dark and Fae'Rhee was getting hungry. She started
wandering the warren again, more or less aimlessly. She found herself by
the med center, and thought about the man that Nrocinu had cut.

She entered the med center and wandered about looking for the man, but he
wasn't in the room anymore. Instead there was a man with dark hair in the
bed. His arm was bandaged. 

Frustrated and confused, Fae'Rhee plopped into the chair by the bed, again
drawing up her knees and hugging them to her chest, a position that made
her feel somewhat protected and secure. 

Tears began flowing down her cheeks, and her mind was flooded with her own
ranting lament, <Why??? I want to fit in, to speak like others. Why can't I
fit in? Why is it so hard to speak like them? To understand them? Why can't
anyone else but the dragons and Jadain hear me?>

She glared at the man in the bed. Not expecting an answer she asked in
desperation, <Can *you* hear me???>

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NRPG: Tag, Mike! Hope you can do something with this.
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