"Cool," Sparkle said, reaching for his menu and... kind of... staring at it. "Uh."

Okay, so people here spoke the same language as him but apparently they didn't write in it. Or at least, this menu certainly didn't, because he was certain he'd been able to read other things here and there before. Good, good.

"Soooo," he hedged, glancing up at Atton again over the top of the menu, "what would you recommend?"

Sparkle had never really taken school seriously, but even so, it had been a while since he found himself functionally illiterate and wishing he could read something. He was finding that he wasn't a fan.