A thousand years or more, no matter how I count. Dale shook his head, pushing that thought back once again. “I . . . no.” There were surely hundreds more things that he should check and verify, but they'd been over it again and again, and sooner or later it was time to just sign the thing and be done with it. There was no sense in waiting until he was fluent in their language. That would take the rest of his life, if not longer, and no matter how patient Princess Celestia was, she'd kick him out of the house if he was still refusing to sign in a decade.