|
Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 29, 2011 21:49:56 GMT -5
Three strokes. Two at a slant that formed a point, one bridging them.
Loki frowned. It was a passable A, but he wasn't satisfied with it yet. He copied it out a few more times.
"Here, will you come look at this?" he said, glancing back over his shoulder at Teja.
|
|
|
Post by Teja on Nov 29, 2011 22:43:51 GMT -5
How he had wrangled her into cooking for him she honestly had no idea.
"Hmm?"
She was making blueberry waffles. He'd better like them, was all she thought, given how many she had to make to satisfy his appetite.
|
|
|
Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 29, 2011 22:45:02 GMT -5
"I'm practicing your needlessly complicated alphabet. Here, how are these-"
|
|
|
Post by Teja on Nov 29, 2011 22:49:03 GMT -5
Runes were nearly impossible to write in.
"You're lucky you came here and not China," she remarked, joining him, having turned the waffle iron off.
....the As were very architectural-looking.
"...they're all right."
|
|
|
Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 29, 2011 22:52:15 GMT -5
He scowled and looked at his hand, half-expecting a burly Jotun fist but seeing only his own slender, glamoured shape. He sighed.
"I can sign a name, what more do,they want? I'll buy a computer-"
|
|
|
Post by Teja on Nov 30, 2011 1:45:15 GMT -5
"You really ought to be able to write. To scribble down memos, notes, etc - if anyone sees you writing in the Elder Futhark they'll be weirded out."
|
|
|
Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 30, 2011 1:47:43 GMT -5
"Or it will come off as extremely clever," he said crossly, flicking his hair from his eyes as he started on B.
|
|
|
Post by Teja on Nov 30, 2011 1:53:44 GMT -5
She sideglanced him. He was tall and thin, painted his nails and had delicate features and a delicate voice, and, she had discovered, a penchant for turning people into goats as a form of punishment.
"You can't afford to come across as too strange," she said very gently, leaning in to kiss him. "But you're right, you are very clever- certainly clever enough to learn a new alphabet," she said cheekily.
|
|
|
Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 30, 2011 1:58:29 GMT -5
He pressed his lips together in a wide downward curve as he worked, protesting under his breath that he felt like a child and occasionally trying to push the hair falling to the sides of his face back behind his ears but failing this.
|
|
|
Post by Teja on Nov 30, 2011 2:00:12 GMT -5
She leaned in and whispered against his ear, "I learned runes, didn't I?"
She tenderly pushed his hair back for him.
|
|
|
Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 30, 2011 2:05:03 GMT -5
"Hold it there-" he prompted.
|
|
|
Post by Teja on Nov 30, 2011 2:07:11 GMT -5
She laughed.
"You dear thing- but my hands will tire-"
|
|
|
Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 30, 2011 2:08:26 GMT -5
"Then let me fasten it back again-" he began in exasperation, leaning back to look at her.
|
|
|
Post by Teja on Nov 30, 2011 2:15:10 GMT -5
She grinned sweetly.
"Oh, but don't tell me you wouldn't miss..."
She was already on her knees to make herself taller, running both hands lovingly through his hair and starting to laugh.
|
|
|
Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 30, 2011 2:21:10 GMT -5
"Mmmh-"
He smiled despite himself and leaned into it.
"I would-"
|
|