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[The camera shows a little girl with black hair and brown eyes - she looks eight or nine.]

Nanny....nanny! Onda fya ondjala!

[There's a pause here]

Tate?

[Another pause, as she considers. She looks like she's thought of something, though!]

Haai? Ek is verlore...ek het honger, ek soek na nanny...

[She pauses again, and speaks once more. Her accent is clipped and clearly a mix of South African and Namibian, pointed and almost Dutch and English mixed with a little bit of German thrown in: much stronger than Saya's adult accent]

Hello? I'm looking for my vade-my father, and I'm very hungry. I think my nanny lost me. Please, someone, understand English, my German is not very good. My name is Satya Daphne. My father works at the American Embassy. I'm not sure how I got here.

[And yet another pause, but she has to do this, she's looking slightly more unsure now]

Entschuldigung, Ich heisse Satya Daphne....

[But before she can finish, the video stops]

[ooc: She's speaking Oshiwambo, Afrikaans, and German, in that order. I don't speak any of these languages, so I apologize for any butchery! replies from prewoven]

Comments

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

[Though Chase has always heard her family were very healthy.]

And that doctor knew your name before you went in, right?

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[prewoven.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it's not magic. My father filled out a form.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

[Damn you, smart child. But he's had that response before.]

We all get a copy of that.

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[prewoven.livejournal.com]

Really? So if I get sick anywhere I can just go to the doctor?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

That's right. We can pull up your medical records on the computer and find out if you're sick because of anything you've had before.

[Sometimes.]

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[prewoven.livejournal.com]

That's very clever.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Wonders of technology. Do you have a computer like this one at home?

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[prewoven.livejournal.com]

I can use the ones at the Embassy, sometimes.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Your dad must be pretty high up if they let you come in and do that.

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[prewoven.livejournal.com]

He's the Ambassador's primary aide.