"So… did he speak your language even once during the meeting?"
"...No."
A day after, the cenleon princes gathered for a meeting with Joseph Hayden — it was initially going to be a public meeting with everyone and anyone free to watch it. Joseph, however, disapproved of this, seeing as the cenleons were not yet even starting to acclimate themselves to the culture of the Surface, and the people might misunderstand their intentions. And so, they just had a meeting at the hotel where Rhys and the others were staying at, where they rented an entire 3 floors.
Joseph's worries were unfounded, however, as the meeting just went on smoothly with Rhys relaying what each side wanted to say expertly and swiftly.
And as soon as the meeting was done and Joseph left for his office, Rhys immediately went to Edissa to try and check if Joseph spoke their language even once.