(Well this'll be the last from me for a little bit, too... hopefully back later)
Alina met Tara's eyes for a second before glancing away, but not before Tara would have been able to see timidity in her eyes.
"I reason," she said, her voice quiet, but somehow commanding attention from others, "that the Programmer will be looking for us in every quiet corner... if not him, perhaps others for him, and I think if we put ourselves in his shoes he wouldn't believe anyone would have the audacity to hide behind his back,"
Alina was by this point slipping into her own reverie, completely unaware that she was talking in riddles. Calder snapped her out of it, turning from Charlotte and cocking his head.
"We ordinary mortals can't speak that language," he said, with sarcasm metaphorically dripping from his words.
Alina flushed and fell silent.