☼ [Dictated] ☼

[aphoenixsong]

SCREEEEEEEEECH!

[A pause and then...]

SCREEEEECH SCREECH SCREECH!

[One can almost see Albus scratching his head and sighing.]

It cannot translate Mermish. What a shame. I had hoped to share a poem I once read on a stone underwater. Clearly that will not be possible.

I do apologize if I startled anyone. Mermish is a curious language. It is most unpleasant on the ears above water and yet it is almost lyrical once you join the Mermaids in their natural environment.

Comments

[birdorcage]

You speak the language of mermaids?

[aphoenixsong]

It may not seem like it, but yes I do. I am fluent in Mermish.

[birdorcage]

What do they talk about?

[aphoenixsong]

They are not so different from you or I. Their concerns are usually regarding their homes, their children and the abundance of sustenance.

[birdorcage]

That's amazing. So, you... breathe underwater?

[aphoenixsong]

With Magic. [Being a Wizard is such fun.]

[birdorcage]

Magic is fascinating. We don't exactly have anything like that, where I'm from. [She's... she doesn't know what she is, but opening tears isn't as spectacular as talking to mermaids.]

[aphoenixsong]

That is a shame. You are missing out on many wonders. [And perhaps being safer at the same time. He wonders about that.]

[birdorcage]

What do you think of the castle's magic?

[aphoenixsong]

I find it most intriguing. I would like to spend some time exploring it.

[birdorcage]

Time is what we have in abundance here, it seems.

[aphoenixsong]

Let us not waste it. Time is a precious gift even when it comes in abundance.