☼ [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

[anytime]

Holy shit. What kind of person unleashes this kind of torture on the ears of innocent bystanders.

[aphoenixsong]

It wasn't my intention for it to be torture. I do apologize.

[anytime]

Maybe next time you should try speaking it submerged. Or at least through a glass of water.

[aphoenixsong]

That is a wonderful idea! [Curiosity had led to him speaking without water.] I will have to attempt that later, though perhaps without my journal.

[anytime]

Yeah, at least bump that shit into beta before dropping it on the unwitting public. And, I dunno, these things don't seem all that waterproof to me.

[There's the sound of him briefly flipping the pages, comparing them to the paper he's used to.]

[aphoenixsong]

I am sorry. [Albus tilts his head and touches his journal.] I can use Magic on it to keep it dry. That isn't a problem.

[anytime]

Real, actual magic. Like the kind from a couple weeks ago? Only realer, 'cause that didn't last too long.

[aphoenixsong]

I was the Headmaster of that particular school once upon a time.

[anytime]

So you're like. A wizardly pro, armed with a windswept beard that my sister would write novels about. She'd dedicate a paragraph just to describing your mystic whiskers, fyi, even if you haven't got them.

[aphoenixsong]

My beard has very little to do with my powers, but I do enjoy it. She would be welcome to describe my - er - "mystic whiskers" as much as she would like.

[anytime]

Careful, dude, you might be treading a path you don't want to go down, especially if she catches wind of it. But who knew, the high fantasy novels and movies got something right.