[She hands it over when asked, takes it back when he's done to read. Hm.]

There's one generally reliable way to get its attention, it seems. It's no guarantee, but it's been talkative enough lately that I imagine it'd respond to its name.

I wonder if it's actually a universal language, or something else, relating to how we're all translated to each other in the first place. It is part of the turtle, after all... Hm.

[If its ability to make itself understood to anyone is at all telepathic, a cypher probably won't work, but the idea itself is a good one, and she likes the way he's thinking.]

Did you have other specific questions?