IC Contact, Part 2

[mentis_reae]

If you have some sort of pressing need, leave a message, along with your name and number. I will receive this message. I will call you back. There is absolutely no need to call me again; repeated calls, in point of fact, will dissuade me from getting back in contact with you at all. I would request that you attempt to keep it brief, so as to

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voice;

[cowboy_newsie]

[Ring ring ring--]

voice;

[mentis_reae]

[He answers on the third ring.]

This is Edgeworth.

voice; BACKDATED to-- oh, let's say the 10th!

[cowboy_newsie]

Salve!

[He says it, unfortunately, as one syllable, not two.]

[mentis_reae]

...Salve?

[He answers in complete befuddlement, likewise using only one syllable.]

[cowboy_newsie]

Yeah. Means hello in Latin, or greetin's or be well, one o' them thin's.

[mentis_reae]

[A long pause. Equally befuddled:]

No; you're thinking of salve. [Pronounced "sahl-way."]

[cowboy_newsie]

That ain't how it's spelled. S-A-L-V-E, not S-O-L-L-W-A-Y.

[mentis_reae]

[What is this surreal state of existence even.]

Yes, but the..."a" is long, and in the Classical pronunciation the "v" is pronounced like the modern "w"...

[cowboy_newsie]

[A doubtful pause. There's noise in the background as he flops onto his bed, opening the book to the right page. Finally, resentfully:]

You'd think they'd say that or somethin'.

[mentis_reae]

Who is "they"?

[cowboy_newsie]

The-- oye, I told you, I were studyin' Latin. There's this book I got, Sirius got for me, all about Latin.

[mentis_reae]

...You kept on with that?

[cowboy_newsie]

Why wouldn't I?

[mentis_reae]

Well. It is extremely difficult.

[cowboy_newsie]

For some people, maybe. I been hearin' it since I were a kid.

[mentis_reae]

Hearing - Ah. You're religious?