For Wilhemina and Khardeen

[smithofwainola]

Ilmarinen has stuck up a large, visible sign. It is lettered in the precise, almost-drawn script of a man who is more used to drafting than to writing, and it is horribly misspelled. The one word that isn't part of a name is in another language--and also misspelled.

VILHIMINA BENNIDIKT IA KARDIIN, the sign reads. There is an arrow pointing to

Comments

[sisterbenedict]

Wilhelmina manages, and she blinks at the sign, startled. "...what's my name doing there?" She asks no one in particular, with an air of consternation.

[sisterbenedict]

She nods, slowly, thinking.

"I don't think you need to be."

[smithofwainola]

"I believe you, since you say it," he answers.

[sisterbenedict]

She offers a smile. "Thank you."

[smithofwainola]

"Will you leave me seek her, lady?"

[sisterbenedict]

She nods, once. "Yes."

[smithofwainola]

So out he goes, looking for Pandora, not realizing that he's not going to find her in daylight. He takes his sign with him, also.