Bean doesn't know if he smells any different than any of the other kids of Command School would. He's been living in space for the past year, first on a sterile space station, and then in a converted Formic outpost. Whether the genetic differences inside him create a different scent or not, he has no idea. He can't imagine they would. The differences are so small.

"¿Algo más? Besides Spanish and English."

Strange that she calls it English and not I.F. Common. They were essentially the same thing, but most people on Earth as Bean knew it called it the latter.