Adan thinks about something for a moment then smiles brightly.

>Adan draws the crude shape of an A in the dirt with a clawed finger.
Adan draws the crude shape of an B in the dirt with a clawed finger.

You ask Adan in Common: And you can read those?

Adan hisses in Common: A Adanas
Adan hisses in Common: B Boar
Adan hisses in Common: N Nazssty

Loric smiles.
Adan grins broadly.
Adan's tail wiggles.

You tell Adan in Common: Very good!
Rex pats Adan on the head.

Adan grins broadly.
>Rex asks Adan in Common: Whats second letter in name?

Adan ponders the situation.
You tell Adan in Common: You know that too.

>Adan hisses in Common: me triezss to remember doezss
You say swiftly in Common: Remember how Yegerfin was laughing at
it?
Rex blurts in Common: Adanath has antlers on his behind
Adan sighs sadly.

Rex giggles.
Adan screams loudly!

Adan runs around chasing his tail looking for antlers.
Adan's tail flicks wildly about.

You tell Adan in Common: Stop stop! you're fine, nothing there!
>Rex grins.

>Adan peers intently at Rex.
Rex peers intently at Adan.
Adan slows down and stops.

Adan hisses in Common: A Nazssty

You ask Adan in Common: what else has antlers?
>Adan hisses in Common: Deerzss!

You say swiftly in Common: Yes!
>Adan hisses in Common: D Deer izss!

The water in the fountain bubbles loudly.
You say swiftly in Common: you remember how to write it?
You nod.

Adan draws what looks like an O except it is flattened on both sides.

Rex blurts in Common: Dat close is!
Adan grins broadly.

You say swiftly in Common: Hmmm... not exactly that. But I think it's
recognizable.

>Adan draws a somewhat decent A followed by a flattened O with his clawed
finger.
You tell Adan in Common: Okay, the third is A again.

Adan draws his best A yet below the flattened O.
You tell Adan in Common: You should write words in one line.

Adan goes hmmmm.
Adan scratches everything out with his claws.

You tell Adan in Common: When you're better, you will read whole words,
and not letters. Just by the shape.
You say swiftly in Common: Easier when they stand close.
You smile at Adan.

>Adan carefully draws an A followed by a flattened O followed by another A in
a straight line with his clawed finger.
Adan grins broadly.
Adan hisses in Common: Adanas

You say swiftly in Common: Nasty?

>Adan goes hmmmm.
Adan hisses in Common: no rememberzss how to draw sat one doezss
Adan hisses in Common: nuh

You say swiftly in Common: No?
You say swiftly in Common: draw two lines next to each other.
You say swiftly in Common: And then link the top of teh first with the
bottom of the other.

>Adan draws two lines in the dirt parallel to each other with his clawed
finger.
Adan connects the two lines with a shaky diagonal line that goes from the
top of one line to the bottom of another.

Adan hisses in Common: A
Adan hisses in Common: Duh

You nod.
>Adan hisses in Common: D
The water in the fountain bubbles loudly.
Adan hisses in Common: A
Adan hisses in Common: nuh,...N

You say swiftly in Common: Okay, and the long name...

You take a mithril ornamented rod from your backpack.
>Adan hisses in Common: AaaDuhan
Adan hisses in Common: Adan
Adan grins broadly.
Adan hisses in Common: aaa

You emote: Tatiana puts rod at the bottom of the word to make it easier for
Adan to write in a straight line.
>Adan draws an A beside the N.

You nod.

You say swiftly in Common: Now, is T like Tatiana.
>Adan hisses in Common: Adanaaa
Adan hisses in Common: T Tati
Adan hisses in Common: How lookzss?

You say swiftly in Common: It's one line, and second line at the top,
looks like a person wearing a round hat.

>Adan ponders the situation.
Adan draws a line in the dirt going up and down.
Adan draws a D shape on top of the line.

You giggle.
>Nogem kisses you deeply.
Nogem silently murmurs in Boreal: he sleeps, and so will I
Adan hisses in Common: why doezss sat doezss?

Adan hisses in Common: me juzsst lickzss foodzss
Adan ponders the situation.
You emote: Tatiana wipes off the round line from the top of the letter T.

You tell Adan in Common: Like that.
>Adan hisses in Common: ohzss
Nogem tells Adan in Common: She nod let Nogam lick yed.
Nogem nods seriously.

You say swiftly in Common: And now H.... like Herger.
You ask Nogem in Common: You'll sleep?

Nogem silently murmurs in Boreal: yes, I need to
Adan hisses in Common: H herger

Adan hisses in Common: no letzss Nogem lickzss?
Adan hisses in Common: she no izss foodzss?

Nogem shakes his head in disagreement to Adan.
Nogem hugs you tightly.

Adan grins broadly.
Nogem kisses you quickly.
Nogem walks out south.

You tell Adan in Common: H looks like two parllel lines, joined by a
perpendicular line at the middle of each..

Hmmmmm.
>Adan draws two lines parallel to each other.

As you look south you see:
The market place of Elvandar.
The area seems to be empty.

>Adan draws a crooked line in the middle connecting them enough to loosely
resemble an H.
Adan hisses in Common: A
Adan hisses in Common: D
Adan hisses in Common: A
Adan hisses in Common: nuh, N
Adan hisses in Common: A
Adan hisses in Common: tati, T
Adan hisses in Common: H
Adan grins broadly.

You clap.

You say swiftly in Common: Very good!
>Adan points at his spelled out name.
>Adan grins broadly.

You emote: Tatiana hugs you friendly and smiles up at you.
>Adan smiles broadly.
Adan tells you in Common: You should no let Nogem lickzss, what if
he triezss eatzss?
>Adan goes hmmmm.
>Adan draws a picture of two stick people with his clawed finger with their
heads touching.
Adan hisses in Common: sat Tati and Nogem izss
Adan grins proudly.

You smile at Adan.
You say swiftly in Common: You can draw Adanath?

>Adan hisses in Common: can kind of doezss
Adan hisses in Common: me drawzss shapezss zssometimezss
Adan grins broadly.

You say swiftly in Common: Let me!
>Adan hisses in Common: zssometimezss when sinkzss hard, hurtzss zsso
zssitzss down and drawzss shapezss in dirt doezss.
Adan grins.

Adan hisses in Common: okiezss Tati drawzss

You emote: Tatiana kneels on the ground and draws a big round shape, with
two stick legs, a smiling head at the top with her finger.

You say swiftly in Common: Hmm, it lacks something!
>Adan goes hmmmm.
Adan wiggles his tail.

You emote: Tatiana adds a long dragon-like tail.

You say swiftly in Common: What more?
>Adan flexes his muscles.

You laugh.
You say swiftly in Common: It's all there!
>Adan looks at his arms.
Adan ponders the situation.

You say swiftly in Common: Ohhh!
You say swiftly in Common: I don't like drawing hands, you can do
it.
You nod.
>Adan grins.
Adan draws two stick arms with pointy claws on the end of them.
Adan draws circles on the arms seemingly to illustrate large muscles.

You emote: Tatiana moves away a bit and draws a roundish shape resembling a
running boar, seemingly fleeing something dangerous!

Adan grins broadly.
Adan hisses in Common: sat GOOD IZss!

You laugh.
>Adan claps.
You smile at Adan.

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