

There was no way the creature could understand the individual words it was saying. "What is your name?" Johanna knew it was all part of the language script. "My name is-" Johanna heard a short burst of gobble with an overtone that seemed to buzz right through her head. Eventually their random fiddlings convinced the dataset that somebody really young had opened up the box, and it shifted into kindermode. The sounds and vids kept the monsters amused for several minutes. Stay out of my things!" The four creatures went rigid, their eyes suddenly wide. Finally they pulled the big, floppy ears simultaneously: the dataset popped open, and the top window went into Johanna's startup routine - an anim of herself saying "Shame on you, Jefri.

The other three continued to play with the dataset's latches.

Datasets were like advanced laptop computers they also had automated language learning programs for children.
