[ He looks at the writing and then at the young woman next to him, and smiles. It is nice to use his own words. ]
Like the moon.
[ Silena, he means. The has one advantage over his inkpots and that is that he did not get smudges all over his necessarily left-handed script. Quickly, he writes out, in those same capitals, much neater than his actual handwriting. Do all your people speak— he pauses, and squints because he doesn't know what the word would be— the old tongue? ]
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Like the moon.
[ Silena, he means. The has one advantage over his inkpots and that is that he did not get smudges all over his necessarily left-handed script. Quickly, he writes out, in those same capitals, much neater than his actual handwriting. Do all your people speak— he pauses, and squints because he doesn't know what the word would be— the old tongue? ]