Cal is, unfortunately, going to have to get used to this, because it doesn't seem like Dustin is ready to pay attention to him. Or rather, he's not ready to pay attention to the right things.
He glances over at Cal, eyes narrowing. "You understand him?" he asks - pointedly not giving his name out. Maybe it's from distraction instead of deliberate misdirection? Dustin is quite interested in the idea of the robot having his own spoken language. He's mentally going through all of the little boops and electronic tweeting noises in context, trying to piece together a pattern. It's the same method he's used to pick up other languages before; surely, if there's a language to be found here (and not just Cal wistfully interpreting his droid's processing noises), Dustin will find it.
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He glances over at Cal, eyes narrowing. "You understand him?" he asks - pointedly not giving his name out. Maybe it's from distraction instead of deliberate misdirection? Dustin is quite interested in the idea of the robot having his own spoken language. He's mentally going through all of the little boops and electronic tweeting noises in context, trying to piece together a pattern. It's the same method he's used to pick up other languages before; surely, if there's a language to be found here (and not just Cal wistfully interpreting his droid's processing noises), Dustin will find it.