"No," Inric says. "Your script uses a lot of High One symbols, but it is still quite different. And there has been eight hundred years of divergence since any High One scholars used it." "But you speak our language," Jakin says. "I speak most of the languages of the foster worlds." "Are you a scholar?" Mina asks. "I was. Many years ago." Just then the lights go on downstairs and they hear a door slam. "Oh no!" Mina squeaks in dismay.