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[bestworstdad]

Τὸ συμβόλαιον δια-

δ....δ...

The heck? How am I even supposed to memorize that?!

[Nagi madly flips through his spell book, flopped out on a mushroom on the third floor, wearing his black shirt and pants. More like angrily laying on it, unable to keep this stuff in his mind long enough to memorize it. It took him years to memorize his lightning spells. Having to relearn to ice was just as difficult. And yes, his pronunciation was horrific and stilted in a way only a person with a English accent could pull off.]

Does Greek really need to be that hard??

Fine, next! Latin...

....god, I'm still bad at Latin too.

Immitte. Okay, I can remember that word. Immitte. Immitte. Immitte. Got it.

Maybe?

[He finally gives up, yelling loudly to anyone who can hear.]

Tell me someone around can speak Latin or ancient Greek! I'm about to die over here!

Comments

[bestworstdad]

Eh? It says what it says!

[Of course, he's not intelligent enough to know that 'fire' never rolled around as that type of verb until gunpowder weapons. But when one's magic world takes a lot of culture from the modern world, stuff gets horrendously twisted in return.]

It always works like that, at least....

[evantuality]

[Well, Evan may be clever, but he's parsed the spell in the entirely wrong way. He's frowning harder now, and he reads over the phrase again.]

Isn't 'fire', 'ignis'?

[bestworstdad]

I think you got the wrong kind of fire that. That kind of fire is banned here, I think.

[evantuality]

The wrong kind of...

[He trails off, furrowing his brow, but only for a moment.]

Oh. Oh! Fire as in -- uh, 'shoot'? Right. Okay. That makes a lot more sense.

Wait -- banned?

[bestworstdad]

Banned. Impossible to do. They took away all my fire and electric spells when I showed up here, you know.

[evantuality]

What?

[Alarmed, he stares at Nagi. Then he looks down, digs for something in his pocket, comes out with a lighter -- which he tries, to no effect. This turns his frown into a scowl.]

How do they do that?

[bestworstdad]

If I knew, do you think I'd be tryin' to memorize spells I don't even need?

[evantuality]

[Why was everybody here sassy about perfectly reasonable questions?! Evan had just suffered something of a blow in finding out his fire had been nerfed, and it was making him testy.]

Well, I don't know. Maybe you knew and just didn't know how to defeat it yet. Maybe you're just expanding your repertoire. I certainly didn't want to assume anything.

[bestworstdad]

What's wrong with assumin'. I know they got that whole ass saying but better to be an ass than be nothing.

Or something.

[evantuality]

Pfft. Yours is a happy nature, isn't it.

[He's peering at the spellbook again, though, freshly interested now that he knows why Nagi's up to what he's up to.]

So... what does it take to cast something like this?

[bestworstdad]

What does it take? Uh....beats me. I failed out of magic school at the age of six. I'm guessin' it either takes super talent or lots of learnin'.