"Oh," she says. "I know about codes. I just never heard that word before. I'm still learning English, you know!" She just explained that, jeez. She folds her arms. "Alchemy is important. Maybe they just don't teach you about it at your school. Or maybe they call it something else." She'd thought that was a English word, but maybe she's wrong.

"I wanna travel to other... hrhm," she grunts in frustration. "What's the word where it's like, there's one of 'em..." She draws an invisible line in the wood with her finger. "And then two of 'em...." Now a square. "And then three?" She gestures at herself and Nick. He knows maths, he has to understand what she means.