Those were the first familiar words he's heard since coming here...!

He dropped the book to the floor, regrettably, but he was just so stunned to hear something so familiar here, in this place where everything is so unworldly and confusing and alien, that simple question in his native language, he was caught up in a whirlwind of nostalgia, this little girl... the curl to her hair, too, while the colour is not so brilliant as his Oscar (no one matches Oscar, in his eye, to be fair), even that brings him back to his youth!