I figured as much. [His hand finds one of hers, closes over the knuckles as they tighten.] It's okay. I'm sorry for assuming you could, before.

[They might magically be able to understand all languages here, but it didn't confer the gift of reading where someone could not. That was his mistake for thinking it would be otherwise.]

And while I don't know about jinba, human babies can't do much. If they can talk at all, it's just to make noises or a word or two. Little baby Khalid was probably busy tugging on his dad's beard and laughing about it over learning his letters.