“I try,” he said, with a careless shrug that was mostly to suggest he didn’t try that hard, and simply had a natural talent. For languages, in this case, but also for practically everything, if Yassine did say so himself. (And English was worse to learn than French had been, as a child, or Spanish a little later; English sounded a little ugly in the mouth, and many of their words and names were like Gobbledegook to him.)
Like Puddlemere, that was always an unfortunate muddle for the tongue. “Puddlemere pays you that much, hm?” Yassine probed anyway, raising an eyebrow. He was primarily interested to hear whether there was any chance of getting him to play out the end of his career at Montrose instead - even if there was no chance, it didn’t mean he couldn’t push it a little - but he was still otherwise intrigued if Zavala had meant he had some other way of making money on the downlow. (Not that he seemed particularly unscrupulous on the surface, but you never knew.)
“And by equal in skill, you mean - lacking in any, correct?” He joked, as if it was the language he did not understand; though looking at the ladies playing, he was not quite joking.
Like Puddlemere, that was always an unfortunate muddle for the tongue. “Puddlemere pays you that much, hm?” Yassine probed anyway, raising an eyebrow. He was primarily interested to hear whether there was any chance of getting him to play out the end of his career at Montrose instead - even if there was no chance, it didn’t mean he couldn’t push it a little - but he was still otherwise intrigued if Zavala had meant he had some other way of making money on the downlow. (Not that he seemed particularly unscrupulous on the surface, but you never knew.)
“And by equal in skill, you mean - lacking in any, correct?” He joked, as if it was the language he did not understand; though looking at the ladies playing, he was not quite joking.
