2nd Floor Common Room, Saturday Night

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Bart was making pie.

Why Bart was making pie might be a mystery unless you were the owner of a panduppy named Gulliver. But there he was. Whipping cream for the top of a pumpkin pie.

He might be going a little over board, but super speed made a person board easily and the different types of pie kept him busy. He missed his pie class.


[[OOC: Open, as common rooms are. Pies are moddable!]]

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"Not yet. That's one I haven't heard of," replied Hoshi.

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Bart nodded. "No one here has. Not even the people from the future too!"

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"I'm from the future, actually," said Hoshi. "I come from about 140 years in the future. So, you're the only one here who can speak Interlac?"

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Nodding, Bart passed her a new pie pan with dough in it. "30th century. No one else seems to be from then."

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"Wow," said Hoshi, amazed. "You're from a lot further in time than where I'm from. Are there any Vulcans where you come from?"

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Thinking it over, Bart shook his head. "I don't think so? But I was in a lab most of the time, so maybe."

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"Why were they keeping you in a lab?" asked Hoshi. It sounded almost as bad as spending her days isolated from all the other kids her age because she was gifted and needed special tutors.

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"Because I moved too fast," Bart said easily. Like it wasn't something that was real. "But Grandma broke me out and now I'm here." A beat. "Should I put a 'B' on the top of the Cherry pie?"

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"Good for her. Your grandma sounds like a good woman," said Hoshi, nodding in approval. "And sure, go ahead."

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"She's awesome! She taught me English and everything!" Bart replied, cutting out a 'B' from the dough.

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"So, tell me more about Interlac," suggested Hoshi, who of course had to get back to the language she hadn't learned yet. She mastered Quechua weeks ago and needed a new challenge.

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"Everyone back home speaks it 'cause it's the 'Universal Language'," Bart replied, sounding like he was repeating someone else.

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"It must be based on some sort of universal translation matrix," said Hoshi eagerly. "Everyone is capable of learning it, right?"

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"I think so!" Bart replied.

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"A truly universal linguacode," murmured Hoshi in amazement. "If this is what I think it is, it could completely redefine the study of linguistics."

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Bart? Had no idea what that meant. But he nodded anyway.

"Yup!" It sounded good.

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Hoshi was just blown away by what the discovery of a universal linguacode could mean to the developing Starfleet back home. "You're going to have to teach me to speak Interlac," she said.

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//"Hi! My name is Bart!"// Bart said in Interlac. That was how Grandma taught him English, at least.

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Hoshi listened very carefully, analyzing the words in her mind. "I'm assuming that was a greeting and an introduction since the only part I understood was your name."

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"I said 'Hi! My name is Bart.'" He replied, bouncing a little as he cut a lightening bolt out of the dough. //"I love pie."//

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//"Hi. My name is Hoshi,"// she said, carefully enunciating each syllable. //"I love pie."//

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Bart giggled. "You sound funny."

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"It takes some practice to get it perfect," said Hoshi. "How long did it take you to learn English?"

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"Ten minutes," Bart replied, making it sound like it took years.