It's not elegant, a part of her wants to cry out. To remove the way to communicate - next she'd be telling her they couldn't write, either. It's grotesque, no matter what others thought. And the children, just wanting to be able to speak to them in kind...how many worlds were there, that people were reshaped brutally by the hands of another, in the name of obedience to some cause that couldn't justify the means?

If she wasn't floating in water, she'd have to sit down.

"...It's not childish, Miss Eleanor. It's your love for him in the form of sound."

Should she have even asked after this in the first place?