Rogue watched over his shoulder as he wrote out the English and Wraith scripts, recognizing a few of the foreign characters from the books she'd been pouring over. This key really was going to make things much easier for her.
She noticed halfway through the list that ink was beginning to cover his fingers, one of the hazards of using quills, she supposed. Stepping away for a moment, she retrieved a small cloth from the bathing room and set it on the desk beside him. If he decided not to use it, she'd just put it back where she found it, but he was being kind and so she wanted to return the gesture. As he was finishing, an even better way to repay that kindness occurred to her.
"Your English is really good," she complimented him, reaching out to pick up the top piece of paper to get a closer look. "It's completely legible, which is more than I can say for most humans." Grading the homework of teenagers was a special sort of torture that she didn't miss in the slightest.
She returned the page to the stack and leaned her hip against the edge of the desk. "You know, there's another script we use in English sometimes, mostly in personal handwriting, where the letters are more curved and connected to each other. If you're going to be working with humans in the future, you might come across it on paper - if you're not familiar with it, I'll write it out for you with some examples. A lot of the characters are the same, but they can look pretty weird in combination, especially if someone has messy handwriting." Doctors were notorious for it.
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She noticed halfway through the list that ink was beginning to cover his fingers, one of the hazards of using quills, she supposed. Stepping away for a moment, she retrieved a small cloth from the bathing room and set it on the desk beside him. If he decided not to use it, she'd just put it back where she found it, but he was being kind and so she wanted to return the gesture. As he was finishing, an even better way to repay that kindness occurred to her.
"Your English is really good," she complimented him, reaching out to pick up the top piece of paper to get a closer look. "It's completely legible, which is more than I can say for most humans." Grading the homework of teenagers was a special sort of torture that she didn't miss in the slightest.
She returned the page to the stack and leaned her hip against the edge of the desk. "You know, there's another script we use in English sometimes, mostly in personal handwriting, where the letters are more curved and connected to each other. If you're going to be working with humans in the future, you might come across it on paper - if you're not familiar with it, I'll write it out for you with some examples. A lot of the characters are the same, but they can look pretty weird in combination, especially if someone has messy handwriting." Doctors were notorious for it.