#master leto

polyglots?? in book one it seemed like sophie spoke and translated french without realizing it was even a different language but in exile when she met leto it took her a second to process that he spoke in dwarven so like uhh

thanks love you nattie ur blog is great <3

realistically that mention of sophie having to realize leto was speaking in dwarven was so that the readers would be informed. but also, this makes sense because it doesn’t say that sophie struggled to reply or couldn’t understand what leto was saying - she just realized “oh, this is a different language i am hearing and understanding”. 

as for the paris incident, sophie’s polyglot abilities allow her to effortlessly shift upon hearing or viewing another language. it’s kind of like her brain presses a “download” button for an entire language upon that cue. now, our brains work even while we’re asleep, so sophie’s brain didn’t make the shift quite then and there when sophie first encountered a parisian. it most likely subconsciously made the shift while sophie was unconscious in the alley, upon overhearing the cities’ bustle. so, this would make sense come where sophie replies to the parisian without recognizing, “ah, new language”. this is also paired with the fact that dex and sophie believed they were still in the lost cities (up until after that encounter), so sophie assumed the “switch” in language was her now-normal shift from english to the enlightened language.

hope this makes sense! :) and ily too <33

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