Bird, bird, bird

[notacrow]

WHO: Myira and YOU
WHAT: Myira pokes around the Gallows and makes a nuisance of herself.
WHEN: Now-ish?
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: Myira can be a jerk? Also nudity bc baths

I. A Forest of Dead Trees

Of all the places in the Gallows, the libraries in the central tower fascinate Myira the most. She has never seen so many books basically ever. In fact, she's not really sure what a book is. She's seen writing, but never like this or all of it in one place. Sometimes she shows up here just to wander around the shelves and pull books out at random. Today is one of those days. Anyone who comes into this particular library might hear someone laboriously reading a book out loud, fumbling over words and letters. Those who investigate will find Myira sitting between the stacks cross legged, five or six books stacked around her and another open in her lap that she is painstakingly attempting to read at a glacial (and rather noisy) pace.

II. I'll see myself out

Myira is... bored. Which is probably not a good thing. She's spent some time wandeirng back and forth across the main courtyard for about thirty minutes in the summer afternoon sunlight before boredom and an itch to stretch her wings get her to retrieve her cloak from her room. A few moments later, there's a raven flitting through the air around the towers of the Gallows. She spends some time dipping, diving and generally showing off before that gets old too and she turns to other methods of diversion. She circles one tower, then another, before settling on a likely open window. She flutters into land on the window sill and looks inside, heedless of whatever she might be interrupting.

"...Nice day, ain't it?" Myira is pretty chipper for a bird that just invited herself in unannounced.


III. A clean bird is a happy bird

The bath, Myira has decided, is one of the things that humans got right. At first she'd simply drawn buckets of (cold) water and doused herself with them to try and get clean as best she could until she found out about the baths. Since then she has become a devoted attendee and can be found there basically every night the baths are open. This evening is no exception. Myira is usually the first to arrive and the last to leave. Currently, she's sitting on the edge of the communal bath, naked as anything, and letting her feet dangle in the warm water with a happy little sigh. She's leaned back on her elbows, eyes closed and kicking her legs a little to splash anyone who gets too close. After a moment, she opens her eyes and feels around beside her, then frowns. Turning her head, she calls out to anyone over by the towels and other bathing accessories.

"Hoi. Can you grab me a wash cloth. I forgot t'grab one!"

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"Spelling what?" Myira stares at Daniel as if he has a second head. Go easy on her, Daniel. She's literally a wild animal.

"Oh! I'm Myira! It's nice to meet you too!" She grins, face practically shining with good humor. "I fell through a hole in the sky."

[exascendee]

He can't help but laugh at the way she says that -- he was hardly as enthusiastic about it when it happened to him. "Yeah, so did I, though it's a couple months ago now."

And alright, adjusting his language usage just a little bit. "And I just mean, how things are spelled doesn't always make sense, and can be different from word to word."

Good luck discussing languages with an actual linguist who speaks roughly thirty different languages. No doubt he'll slip up and use some obscure technical term.

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"Fallin' out of holes in the sky seems to be real popular around here," Myira muses. "I don't normally do any kinda fallin' so it was a bit of a surprise for me." She sits back and stretches a little to get a krick out of her back. She's dressed in a simple linen shift belted around the waist with a length of rope, over which she wears a gorgeous cloak made entirely of black feathers.

"Oh, yeah. Letters are only supposed to make one sound, right? That's what I remember bein' told. Or at least... Hrm..." She goes quiet, considering.

"It's been a while since I learned, though and I ain't practiced much."

[exascendee]

Daniel does a lot of falling, and a lot of intergalactic travel, so it isn't that uncommon for him. What's uncommon for him is how long he's stayed here. He wonders if the team are on his trail, or if he's been declared dead again by now. Jack's been pretty reticent about assuming anything regarding Daniel's life-expectancy ever since Daniel ascended, considering Daniel does make it a habit of coming back from the dead.

"In some languages, that's true. In this one, it depends what other letters they're put next to, and in a lot of cases there aren't even rules. You just have to learn how a word is spelled."

"Like..." he looks over at the book she was trying to read, finding her spot from what he could hear from her grumbling. "Magnificent."

[notacrow]

"Magnificent..." MYira repeats the word, feeling out the sound of the words with her lips. It's strange to her, really. Lips are new and interesting sometimes--when she's a bird she just... vocalizes. She huffs and blows a stray strand of hair out of her face.

"But I thought that th' little line with the dot on it made a different noise."