I feel like I should be more used to the idea than I am. Like...I've been a lot of places, I get that there's more ways to communicate than just talking.

[ He's heard a lot of alien languages, from gutteral clicks and clacks to ones that sounded less like speech and more like music. And he's seen some things, like that one species that changed the color of their scales depending on the context of what they were saying, but - ]

But it's always gotten translated back to talking. There were still words.

[ Maybe that's the problem. He's used to having a translator. Something a little more regulated than just...feeling it and having to decide what that meant on his own. ]