28.May.22, 03:19 AM
Siro looked at the letter again, frowning as he reread the part about his father saving Chir from a hunting accident. It gave him a very unsettling mental image that he was glad he hadn't been present to see in person. He would have been absolutely useless! He sighed and ran his hands through his hair again and felt how greasy it was. He was probably due a bath, and a quick sniff of himself verifies it. He frowned, nose wrinkling. "I need a bath. Have you had one? I can show you where the baths are."
He didn't think Chir had much of his own things if he was just snatched up by his dad and brought here so he grabbed an extra clean towel before leading the way to the bath. They were going to have to find some way to communicate until they could get to reading and writing at least. Maybe they could try to do something with the flailing and gesticulating, or maybe even just signals with whistles like birds. He pushed the door to the baths open and hung the towels up before he stripped out of his pants and set them off to the side on a bench. "You should probably try to not worry about the nudity so much. Everyone takes baths and there aren't that many weyrs that come with a private bath. We're definitely not fancy enough for that. Maybe if we impress some bronzes one day... who knows."
With a sigh he sank into the warm water and dunked himself before grabbing a handful of sweet sand to scrub into his hair until it foamed into a thick lather. Fancy, having rode his boy into the water, finally relinquished his grip to take a little swim. "So. We're going to need some way to communicate or something. At least so I know what questions you have instead of just having you point or flail. So... Hm. Maybe two fingers for why? It almost looks like a Y... okay it looks more like a V, but for our purposes it will do. So this," he held up his two fingers, slightly spread, "can be for the question why. That work for you? And... Do you know how to whistle? We could use that too. Like birds or something if that makes sense." He demonstrated with another whistle that caught Fancy's attention and made him chirp and whistle in response.
He didn't think Chir had much of his own things if he was just snatched up by his dad and brought here so he grabbed an extra clean towel before leading the way to the bath. They were going to have to find some way to communicate until they could get to reading and writing at least. Maybe they could try to do something with the flailing and gesticulating, or maybe even just signals with whistles like birds. He pushed the door to the baths open and hung the towels up before he stripped out of his pants and set them off to the side on a bench. "You should probably try to not worry about the nudity so much. Everyone takes baths and there aren't that many weyrs that come with a private bath. We're definitely not fancy enough for that. Maybe if we impress some bronzes one day... who knows."
With a sigh he sank into the warm water and dunked himself before grabbing a handful of sweet sand to scrub into his hair until it foamed into a thick lather. Fancy, having rode his boy into the water, finally relinquished his grip to take a little swim. "So. We're going to need some way to communicate or something. At least so I know what questions you have instead of just having you point or flail. So... Hm. Maybe two fingers for why? It almost looks like a Y... okay it looks more like a V, but for our purposes it will do. So this," he held up his two fingers, slightly spread, "can be for the question why. That work for you? And... Do you know how to whistle? We could use that too. Like birds or something if that makes sense." He demonstrated with another whistle that caught Fancy's attention and made him chirp and whistle in response.