@"Horus"
The slime's surface quivered slightly as Lima-Sierra tried to decipher Tybalt's newest round of words. 'Okaythen.' Agreement? Like 'yes?' Logical. 'What doyou want-to-learn" and "huh" took a bit more work.
Lima-Sierra knew parts of the first phrase. 'Want to learn' was known. What, then, was 'what doyou?' It had to work with 'want to learn' and that limited what it could be, logically speaking. Lima-Sierra was very logical, especially for something that literally lived on emotions.
Could it be a query? Asking for more detail about what Lima-Sierra wanted to learn? Was the entire phrase a query or did it have extra mystery words in it, like so much else that people-who-were-not-Lima-Sierra said? 'Doyou,' or at least 'you' was a sound that the slime had heard very often but was still unable to define. 'What,' then, was probably the query.
!
"Lima-Sierra want to learn what Tybalt bad emotions." The sentence was awkward, and patchwork - 'what' in particular was very much imitating Tybalt - but the slime was hopeful and proud of it.
