Thread:YingHe/@comment-38701854-20191008015427/@comment-36159587-20191010000321

"It's the English alphabet," Hitan started patiently, and because the narrator is mind-boggled by balancing chemical equations and isn't the teaching/patient type at all, Hitan goes on to explain the function of the alphabet/why it's important, and that it goes into writing. He may or may not have compared some of the letters, while he was pointing some specifics out, to that of birds.