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"We do have a few here," Rory said. "Any idea on which books?"

"Sun Tzu's 'Art of War', please," Luke said promptly. "And something about swimming."

"Why swimming?" she asked curiously, getting up and leading the way. "I know where the Art of War is. It's a great book."

"Because I don't know how to swim and there's too much water around here not to learn," Luke said, following along behind, "and V recommended the other book. You've read it, too?"

"'If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles,'" Rory recited, walking backwards to look at Luke. "'Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.' Of course I've read it. It's helped me with Vader."

"That's the plan," Luke said, nodding.

"It's a little stilted," she warned as she trailed her fingertip along spines of books. "And it wasn't written in English. So let me know if you have trouble."

She selected a thin volume and handed it over. "Okay, you can't learn to swim from a book. It's one of those things where you need a practical application. Like riding a bi...like flying. You can't read a book on flying and do it right, can you?"

"I figured it had to beat jumping into the water and drowning," Luke said, "but I'm open to suggestions."

"We have a pool," Rory said. "I can teach you."

Luke's face lit up. "Really?"

Rory smiled. "If you want. Hermione cleaned the pool and everything, so it's fine."

"Sounds great!" Luke squeaked excitedly. "When do you want to try?"

"This weekend?" Rory suggested. "I don't really have anything going on."

"Me either," Luke said smiling. "So let's meet up some time and you can watch me flail." He paused. "Oh! Can I interview you about being from this planet? It's for Astronomy."

"Sure!" she said happily. "Like, now?"

"Okay!" Luke said, then blushed. "You don't happen to have paper I can borrow?"

"Luke." She gave him a Look and led him back to the desk. "I always, always have paper. Got a pen color preference?"

"Blue," Luke answered promptly, then reached for the paper. "Um. Tell me about Earth. There are hundreds of different countries, right? That's bizarre."

"Some of them are very wee, too," Rory said with a nod. "And there are about a zillion languages, as well."

"Do you have a planetary equivalent of a protocol droid that speaks all of those languages?" Luke asked.

"We have the internet, and translating programs," Rory said. "I also happen to speak about a dozen languages besides English, though most of them not really very well."

Luke nodded. "I can understand a few," he said because you don't last long on Tatooine without learning to understand the Jawas and the Hutts, "but for the most part, I rely on Threepio. What are the most common languages to learn other than English?"

"Spanish and French, here in the States," Rory said. "German as well, in some places. Oh, and Sign Language. I think Japanese is one of the most widely-known languages, too. And Chinese."

Luke nodded and wrote it all down. "Do all of the languages make it difficult for people to get along?" he asked, thinking back to some of the discussions in Interstellar Relations.

"Kind of," Rory said. "There are lingual and cultural barriers. But we have something called the United Nations, which is a little like the galactic senate used to be, I guess. And representatives from all the nations come to the headquarters and there are translators, so that makes things easier."

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