"It would certainly explain why I can understand it and you can't," he says. "I wasn't sure before. What I saw...it was so brief. Just a brief moment in time. But...it's from a real place, isn't it? There's more to us than this." He looks like a man who's discovered hope for the first time. He presses the book back into her hands. "Here. You should hang on to this. It'll help you recognize the language if you see it again, I bet. And then I can help you read it."