<span style="font-size: 85%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #99AAFF">"Aside from English?"</span> <span style="color: #33FFEE">he asked. Picking up his cup, he took a couple small sips before answering.</span> <span style="color: #99AAFF">"I'm fluent in French; my dad insisted we all take it in grade school and I picked up a lot from our summers there. I know a little Italian. Oh, and Japanese,"</span> <span style="color: #33FFEE">he said.</span> <span style="color: #99AAFF">"My mum's Japanese and she wanted all three of us to learn it. Sometimes I swear I speak that better than English."</span></span>