"...Could it be that there was some special item or event that caused me to be left behind, uninvolved in the ritual, and smoothly offering my devotion, yet we failed to notice?"
Bofis struggled to repeat Xitan Pulan's words, effortfully.
This complex, lengthy sentence was too difficult for a specter who was only a little over a thousand years old to understand.
After all, Xitan Pulan did not speak Elvish.
The two of them were able to have a conversation only because, as a demi-spectre, Xitan Pulan could speak with all ghosts and spirits. But this conversation itself was quite forced...
As a user of a descendant language, Xitan Pulan could basically understand what Bofis was saying; the converse was like Bofis listening to an artificial intelligence translation software doing simultaneous interpretation of Xitan Pulan's words.
Xitan Pulan repeated herself twice, and only then did Bofis finally grasp what she meant.
Bofis tilted her head thoughtfully, "If I must say..."
