Chapter Five; In Which Seris Spends the Night In Soonroak’s Treehouse, Meets Soonroak’s Parents, and learns some Treian (and Latin too).

After we climbed up the tree and got into the house, I was feeling pretty tired. After all, I just got more vitamin D than I have in a year! (Kidding, kidding… Or am I?) I asked Soonroak’s mom if they had a spare bedroom, and (according to Soonroak’s translation), they did!

So, I went on over to the spare bedroom with Soonroak, and asked her to teach me some Treian, because literally no one else spoke English here, and classes with her is gonna be better than trying to figure it all out myself. In exchange, she wanted to try and learn another Earthly language, so I told her the ones I know of (and happened to have dictionaries that translate them on my electronic reading thing) ; Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Latin, and Chinese. She chose Latin.
“The hardest part about Treian is that the words are almost always not following rules,” Soonroak said, "Except for the one, two, and three letter words. One letter words never change. I or A in Treian is still I or A.”
I asked, “And the two and three letter words?”
“I’m getting to that,” Soonraok said.
I said, “ So say it! ”
“Okay, okay, I get it.” She said, “2 letter words are swapped, unless they turn into other words. For example, in turns into ni, but on is still on because on backwards is no. Same with no.”
I said, “Oooooohhhhh, I get ti! See what I did there?”
“Eys, eys I od,” she said.
“Huh?” I said, and then I realised, “Is that what three letter words do? Swap the first and second letters?”
“Uyp!”
“Okay, you can stop speaking in Treian now.”
“Alright, fine, but we gotta learn some Latin, after your first Treian lesson.”
“Alright."