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741.09.06 | How do notes even work? - Fediletch - 06.Sep.20
Fetch was supposed to be reading; he was doing his best but he was having such a hard time trying to stay focused on it. It was a book about dragons and their riders fighting thread, or at least that's what he was told it was about, but even the subject of dragons was having trouble keeping him engaged. There were so many letters and words and he couldn't remember what all of them were supposed to look like. He had a pad of paper and a pencil that he was supposed to be writing notes or something, (but why would he write notes when the words were already written?), but instead he was using them to doodle pictures of Chuck as the young brown firelizard lounged nearby.
He felt guilty as he looked at the sketch, and tried to turn his attention back to the book. As if he could sense Fediletch's sour mod, Chuck chose that moment to crawl over and into the young man's lap for some pets and scratches. Fetch sighed and leaned back in his chair to stair up at the ceiling of the dining hall as he obliged the creature. A part of him wanted to just give up, a dragon probably deserved someone more clever than he was, someone who could read stories to it. Chuck gave a small chirp from his lap and Fetch looked down at the little miniature dragon. "Okay, just don't make fun of me, Chuck."
He turned back to the book and started to try and read again, taking his time to try and pronounce the words so that they made sense as he tried to read aloud to the firelizard. "Once upon a time... there was a great cal.... calamty. Calamity... what's that even mean?" Maybe that was what the notes were supposed to be about. He carefully wrote the word down next to the sketch of Chuck to ask about later, and then continued on.