[Huh. They actually agree on this library, after all that. Somehow that in itself also gets on her nerves, but her brows also furrow in confusion at "fonology" (if phonology exists in Terca Lumireis, it's far outside her field).]
Intentionally annoying, maybe.
[Not that he's wrong, either; they do need information to make sense of all of this, and having it missing could be part of the point.
His change in tone is...better, even if she still gives him a skeptical frown.]
What do the publication dates matter? It's not like the books are written in ciphers or anything.
[Just. A language she can somehow read despite having never seen it before in her life. Which is bizarre as hell and something she'd rather not think about (and yet it just keeps nagging at her anyway).
She had flipped open a couple of books, but even if she glanced at the dates, they didn't mean anything to her.]
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Intentionally annoying, maybe.
[Not that he's wrong, either; they do need information to make sense of all of this, and having it missing could be part of the point.
His change in tone is...better, even if she still gives him a skeptical frown.]
What do the publication dates matter? It's not like the books are written in ciphers or anything.
[Just. A language she can somehow read despite having never seen it before in her life. Which is bizarre as hell and something she'd rather not think about (and yet it just keeps nagging at her anyway).
She had flipped open a couple of books, but even if she glanced at the dates, they didn't mean anything to her.]
Unless you somehow know what a "January" is...?