Have you made any progress so far? [Carol doesn't mind piggybacking off any notes he might make - even incorrect ones would contribute to the process of elimination - but if he's barely making any headway, it'd be a waste of her time to study with him.

... Still, she's going back to get her actually filled notes and the book she was working on, then sitting down next to him anyway. What use is time to her, again?

She smacks one of her notepages with the back of her hand.]

I've been working on basic words. Food, water. Those seemed like the easiest place to start. [Carol's taught herself Latin, Chinese, French, Japanese, Irish, Sumerian, Egyptian, English, and most other languages that exist in her world. At least she has practice.]