Status Updates From The Last Language

i like this book. uncomfortable but extremely riveting wthhh aaaaaa so gooood

"What was happening now had nothing to do with beauty; it was something much stranger, more substantial. Your features were assembling into new meaning, as foreign phonemes alchemize into words. It was hard not to keep staring to keep checking, again and again, on this interesting process."

how can the author write the conversation of these two people very engaging when the other aren't verbalizing it—only thru typing (of words). there is certainly power imbalance happening here if you look deeply. fmc's pov seemed to project it as some kind of a spark in their relationship(?) but on introspection it's v v dark borderline concerning.