The alien, the pony who had rescued her from drowning had also saved her from ignorance. Spending the time to teach individual words through painstaking trial and error had been kind of the nurses back in the hospital, but it had also been painfully slow. James’s rescuer hadn’t stayed to try and help her through individual words. She hadn’t even given her a dictionary. Instead, she’d been provided with a book specifically designed to teach children how to speak.