[Never heard of dyslexia? Susato seems so smart, he kinda figured she would just assume she'd know it.]

It's-- actually, that's exactly how it feels. It's like Greek is my actual first language, and whenever I try to look at English or Spanish, everything just flips and spins and my brain just makes a loud error message.

[He wonders if he would be better at managing it if his mom hadn't died, and he actually stayed in school and didn't run away and actually cared to try.

He didn't really care about it, and it never really mattered, until he got here and everything had to be read and written. Archaic.]