She just gives a brief nod of understanding, Barbara was the sensei, she wasn't going to question her sensei's decisions too much. Cass opens the book, even if looking just a tad reluctant, not enough not to, but it's always clear enough that this sort of thing isn't her forte and she's well aware. But reading was important, everyone said that often too, and it would improve her speech at the same time. If there was one thing she was, it was a determined student at least.

One preparatory deep calming breath, the same she started all her training sessions with, and Cass began at the title of the tale she'd picked for the title name really. "The Bat. The Birds. And The beasts."

Normally 'a', 'the' and other smaller words that she often saw as less than essential, were dropped in her speech. But in reading it was clear she was making the effort to hit them all, sometimes with a bit too much emphasis, evidenced by her including all the words in the title. Though a few were still missed in the short story and her pauses often made commas seem more like periods. But her vocabulary was better than it had once been, and her understanding of punctuation was certainly progressing at a steady clip.

"...peace was made. No battle took place. So The Bat came to The Birds and wish to join in the....re...rejoo...re-joo-ih...what word?"