Shady

“No.” She shook her head. “I’ll… call you when I’m ready to go, I guess. And you can tell me where we’re going? Or do you know that already? Derik ...

“…oh.” She didn’t understand. But she couldn’t say that. Obviously.

“Okay.” She shoved the paper to the side. Hopefully she didn’t summon a demon instead. “…what will you do until then?”

“And… what… you’ll just poof into the room when I say this?”

“…I’ll write it down.” She went over to the desk and pulled out a scrap of paper then struggled to phonetically try to spell it out.

She repeated it, getting close this time. “…what if I forget it?”

“That’s… gross.” She wrinkled her nose. “But I’ll say it if I have to I guess… say it again.”

“Tongue of Strithr. Serve. My. Ear,” she repeated, emphasizing it. Surely they would see how gross that was.

(Hahahaha omg) (And you just said it to high schooler, whose brain is 100% in the gutter) She recoiled a bit, wrinkling her nose in distaste. “Ew.”

(Ahh good to know lol she was gonna mispronounce it either way but I clearly didn’t know, either haha is it a real language?) Jerica clumsily tried again, getting a ...

“Tunga of Strithr… poja earmi nu?” She repeated uncertainly.

“How?” Jerica asked.

(Okay cool ^^ we can see how it plays out. Ky’s not pissing me off as much now as she was before lol but Jerica is gonna be resistant to ...

(Ooh nice good to know!) Jerica rubbed her face, overwhelmed. “…how soon?” Her voice was weaker than she would have wanted.

That was alarming. She looked at them in distress. “What? No. How am I supposed to do that? I don’t even know what I’m supposed to say. Or where I’m ...