The Smoke-Scented Girl
“Piercy had to force him to take rests and ultimately resorted to pointing out that Kerensa had begun to look haggard from inactivity, which made Evon feel horribly guilty. After that, Piercy and Kerensa went for walks in the mid-morning and after dinner, accompanied by one of the Home Defense agents, and Evon organized his notes and made more of them and analyzed his findings until his eyes ached. Occasionally he joined Piercy and Kerensa, but he was always so preoccupied with his thoughts that... he was a poor companion and sometimes had to be steered out of the way of other pedestrians and lampposts.
His lexicon grew slowly, which infuriated him. It felt like the spell was taunting him, becoming more obscure the more he learned. More phrases: fire to destroy, tell it to return, bind the call. Too many long sequences of indecipherable runes. Some of the five hundred runes seemed to be variants on others, and he didn’t know what to make of that; were they the same words, written differently, or did the variants alter the meanings, change present to past tense or turn a noun into a gerund?MoreLess
His lexicon grew slowly, which infuriated him. It felt like the spell was taunting him, becoming more obscure the more he learned. More phrases: fire to destroy, tell it to return, bind the call. Too many long sequences of indecipherable runes. Some of the five hundred runes seemed to be variants on others, and he didn’t know what to make of that; were they the same words, written differently, or did the variants alter the meanings, change present to past tense or turn a noun into a gerund?MoreLess
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