Learning the Language

[radiant_aeryn]

Who: Adora Cain and Aeryn Sun (and open to anyone who runs across them)
When: Just after this post
Where: Hotel Hallways on their way down for food
What: Aeryn wants to learn even more of the "hoo-man" language, so that she can talk to the others

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[bythewhiteelm]

Adora laughed and nodded. "Well, that is always a good place to start." She reached for one of the pages and ran it between her fingers. The texture was odd, and not like any paper she'd ever seen before. Letting go of the page, Adora, pointed to the book. "We'll add more words," she promised. "Definitely 'need to know'."

[radiant_aeryn]

Aeryn smiled and nodded. She would love to add more words, learn the language better, so when she got back to John, she would be able to speak to him. If this wasn't Earth, then she would still be able to fit in perhaps. If this was Earth, then she couldn't imagine someone wanting to get back to a place such as this.

She pointed to the wall, "what is word?"

[bythewhiteelm]

Following the confusion over 'locket', 'chain' and 'necklace', Adora decided to keep things simple for Aeryn. They could go deeper, once she followed the language more.

"Wall," Adora said, reaching up and running her hand over he surface, then motioning to indicate the length of it.

[radiant_aeryn]

"Wall," Aeryn repeated. "wall," She said again and leaned to touch it. She was used to the soft pulsating of Moya's inner walls. The fact that the surface she touched now was cold and lifeless caused Aeryn to shudder. "Dead .. walls." She visibly shuddered to communicate that it sort of, what did John say? 'Creeped her out'. "Moyas," she pointed to the surface," wall," she shook her head. "not dead."

[bythewhiteelm]

Adora smiled and nodded. "I met Eliot. He's very nice, too." Leaning slightly, to whisper, she added: "He doesn't really know how to make pie." She couldn't help but smile, though. Any other pie, he probably could handle. But, strawberry pie didn't go in the oven.

Still, that he had tried, meant a lot.

Adora looked into another door and leaned back, giving Aeryn a funny look, then looked into the room again.

[radiant_aeryn]

"Only you and Jack." Aeryn stated. She had not met anyone else yet.

As Adora looked into rooms, Aeryn looked around the building. She still felt she couldn't rest; That this could be some sort of trap. Either the Peacekeepers or the Scarrans are both capable of deception such as this. She turned ti look at Adora who had just peked into a room, then gave her a funny look. She followed suit and was suprised to see a very large, very white room. "What that?"

[bythewhiteelm]

Adora couldn't help bust step inside. "I've never seen anything like it," she said, in complete awe of the sheer size of the room.

As she moved deeper into the room, Adora looked up at the ceiling and turned slightly, before having to look at the floor. She'd moved too quickly at an off angle and had made herself dizzy.

[radiant_aeryn]

Aeryn herself had seen rooms this large and even larger on the Command Carrier, but she had never seen one that was all tables, as if it were for some type of meeting. Now she was starting to feel a bit suspicious. Was she actually on a command carrier? No.. she couldn't be. Her prowler would have picked up on the signals. This was definitely a planet of some kind according to what the readings were.

Perhaps the Peacekeepers had turned a small planet into some type of universal prison that randomly captured people for study. Unless this was some sort of Scarran prison. No, the scarran torture used memories to populate their hallucinations. She knew none of these people.

She saw Adora nearly trip and reached to catch her. "Care-ful. You hurt e-nuff."

"What kind of room is this?"

[bythewhiteelm]

"It's a house for chickens." She turned to the paper and, below the letters, drew a messy version of a chicken coop, then drew a chicken. "They're farm animals. They lay eggs. And the live in a coop, to stay safe from wild animals." Waving her left hand, Adora shook her head. "But, that's not important. What is important," she smiled, "is that we have paper. And," she held up the orange marker, "whatever this is."

[radiant_aeryn]

Aeryn smiled. "Paper is good." She smiled and lifted the marker, "at least we can write." She looked around. Then asked, "help lamron words?"

[bythewhiteelm]

"Lamb-" Adora started, then realized she didn't know what that one was. "We should probably start writing things down," she nodded. Adora moved over to the shelf and picked up a stack of the regular-sized paper, then pulled out the bucket that had all the markers. Moving back to the table, she slid the first piece of paper and winced as she pulled the lid off a green marker.

She wrote a note, best as she could - have borrowed these pencils and paper to 109. ACain - and then reached for the empty cup. Turning it over on top of the paper, Adora made sure the note was in the middle of the table and nodded to the larger page, with the letters. "Will you grab that?" she asked Aeryn. "And maybe some more," she half-asked, nodding to the rack of paper below. "Or will this be enough?"

[radiant_aeryn]

Aeryn nodded and took the large sheet of paper, giving it an easy fold so it wouldn't tear. She then bent and grabbed more of the paper, figuring she had an entire language to learn, best have as much paper as possible. "ready." She said. "Need, any-thing else?"