Swiftcurrent Creek Winter is a cruel creature

Though he praised her and said she was doing well for her first time speaking it, Kaskara felt immensely slow. Would she ever pick it up? "Thanks," she said with a smile, trying to shrug off the feeling of not being good enough. "The words are just so different, I'm afraid I'll never get it." Even though she knew how to say her name, she wasn't sure which words in his language meant what in the common tongue they shared. Maybe she would get he hang of it, like he said. "How have you been lately?" she asked him as they walked.