Unfortunately, Doug's fluency in Valdemaran is a fluke, caused by a number of things in close proximity time- and space-wise: Doug wanting to be able to talk to people without telepathy, a Herald-trainee "aide"/guide who wanted the same thing, said trainee semi-idly playing a song, the forgotten heartstone under the palace complex, and the tendency of the magical "network" connecting Heralds to do what needs being done. There was an "event" that Doug still doesn't understand, and the result was that Doug got complete fluency in Valdemaran, and Herald-Trainee Delandra vel'Devarn now speaks perfect late-20th-Century American English (Southern California sub-dialect).
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.