Blackbeak Bluff And I'll never be alone

"Must not be that easy, I guess. Just in case you come up with something that is already there and has an entirely different meaning," Wraen mused, which was the reason she did not speak any foreign tongues or even attempted to find people, who were native speakers, and learn properly. She feared mistakes and embarrassment.

"No, I have not. I found out as a kid that there are plenty of words I have no idea about in, what you call the common tongue. They sound weird and impossible, but they are real. Like..." she fell silent, trying to recall the oddest words in English she had ever heard. "Valetudinarian, for example. It's a posh way to say that you are self-obsessed weakling," she offered, feeling happy that she had managed to spell it right.

"Or obnubilate. Sounds naughty, but it really means that something becomes dark or dim. I have yet to meet a person, who uses it in a casual conversation," she concluded.