Jany: Thanks for this visit, Blake . . .
Blake: We were going to have a stopover in the UK anyway — it only made sense to let you visit home.
Jany: Oh, I specifically meant the museum! Thoughtful of Ms. Walker to send you along. I guess she wouldn’t get much out of the paintings herself.
Blake: Alas, no. But my Master does have an appreciation for things that are . . . finely sculpted.
Naresh: Jany! Jany, is that you? And Kara Lynn, too! Over here!
Jany: Naresh!
Naresh: Hey, sis.
Blake: I’ll go run some errands — leave you two alone for some quality Balachandran family time.
Jany: (haha!)
Naresh: Aww, babe, what’s the hurry? You can stay.
Jany: Na-re-esh!
Question: Could Patrick (who is taking classes for this) could be commanded to retain his memory of the English written language even into his next Contracts? Could his next Master order him to “remember how to read and write English”?
Yes! As discussed after chapter 19.
However, when it comes to reading and writing, Beings are inherently limited. They’re built on a Contract of written words, which instills a barrier to processing writing in any other language. And creating original words of their own…that’s about as inaccessible to them as having original opinions.
So even if every new Master immediately ordered Patrick to remember the learned skill, he wouldn’t make it to the level of a human.
Blake reminds me of Divina Sonriente. (Mostly just the current outfit and colours they’re wearing)