<font color='#CCCCCC'>Eka smile at Nafel reaction to what she was trying to do. <span style='color:009900'>“Well it’s just something I remember my sister showing me. I was just using my telekinesis to move the pen with my mind and try to write some of the letters but being young my mind isn’t that strong yet. My sister is better at it then me. I guess in a way it works like your spells, but yet different."</span> Eks smiled picking up her pen again.</font>
<font color='#48CCCD'>Nafel smiles. <span style='color:white'>"Cool! I'll try that. Not all spells are practical, ya know!"</span> She winks impishly. She grabs a sheet of paper and holds the pen on it, the black ink seeping into the paper. She closes her eyes and concentrates, managing to write an 'N' before the pen falls.</font>
<font color='#CCCCCC'>Eka watched as Nafel tried to use her telekinesis to move the pen around. <span style='color:009900'>“That’s pretty good for a first try, I could barley get it off the ground on my first go. Well they do says that it gets stronger as you get older."</span> Eks said while trying to write out some more of the symbols with a pen.</font>
<font color='#48CCCD'>OOC// I was using Mozilla to type this, so the Translator won't work for me. I translated it manually, so sorry if what she says is off. It's supposed to be 'Magic'. BIC// Nafel smiles. <span style='color:white'>"That's really cool. I wonder how 'dragons found that trick out?"</span> Nafel turns her head towards the time piece at the front of the room. Seeing that there is still a decent amount of time left in the class, she stretches. As 'dragons are still looking at their lists, she does the same. The phrase her eyes are drawn to is one that reads (as the paper states) 'What is your trade?' She smiles, as she answers quietly to to the paper <span style='color:white'>"Nuhek."</span></font>
<font color='#CCCCCC'>Eka thought about that. <span style='color:009900'>“It would be interesting to find out, cause I have no idea. It would probably have stories about it in the Library some where."</span> Eka looked around the class to see other still working at different things. She then remembered that her names was in Ramathian. ‘Eka’ meant ‘ice’ and her last name ‘Tsyjn’ meant ‘storm’. She smiled, she had gotten to chose her last name as most do in her clan.</font>
<font color='698AAB'>Tryphaena decides to continue, waiting for the chatter to die down. She didn't mind in the least that her students carried on conversation during the note-writing lulls, so long as they got what they needed out of this class, and didn't disrupt others from learning. <span style='color:#A41547'>"Now, something else that aids in confusion is that of proper nouns."</span> she smiles. <span style='color:#A41547'>"Proper nouns, like you learn in your modern language and grammar usage classes, are items that are capitalized, and that name a specific person, place, thing, or idea.</span> <span style='color:#A41547'>"Same goes for Ramathian. In this language, if a word translated from Ramathian to modern doesn't make sense, we assume it's a proper noun, and it remains unchanged. Similarly, if you were to translate your names into Ramathian, you wouldn't change a thing: because your names are proper, as they denote the specific 'you'."</span> Tryphaena grins, <span style='color:#A41547'>"But, like I said, some pendragons' last names are that of Ramathian, which when translated into modern do have a relative meaning, but due to their being proper, they remain the same sounds and spellings as one would use in the original language.</span> <span style='color:#A41547'>"For example, Miss Eka Tsyjn, Master Quixx Fucakhutaj, and Miss Jac Embupaj. Which are Ice Storm, Wakechaser, and Invader."</span> she winks at the trio. <span style='color:#A41547'>"But, we don't call them by that, even though we know that's what it means in modern. Ramathian is Ramathian, Janardan is Janardan, and your name is your name, no matter what language."</span> She looks around hopefully, <span style='color:#A41547'>"Does that make sense?"</span></font>
<font color='#48CCCD'>Nafel nods. She takes a few quick notes in her spiral and then raises her hand. <span style='color:white'>"Ma''aam? Would things usch as the word 'magic' be translatded? And would 'Elemental Magic' be translated? It is a proper noun, I think, but wouldn't it make more sernse to translate it? Just wondering."</span> She smiles shyly.</font>
<font color='698AAB'>Tryphaena nods, smiling encouragingly to Nafel, <span style='color:#A41547'>"Iat, alanamsul nudek et sjumtlusap."</span> She speaks the same in modern, <span style='color:#A41547'>"Yes, elemental magic is translated."</span> In a little further explaining, she adds, <span style='color:#A41547'>"Fire, water, earth, and air become veja, fusaj, aujsh, and uej."</span> After a moments thought, she writes those down on the board: the modern word then the modern letter spelling of ramathian across from it, and further across from it, she writes the glyphs that mean such, so they could see how it was spelled and written. She looks around, <span style='color:#A41547'>"Though your trades may be capitalized, most often, there is a ramathian counterpart for it."</span> \\ OOC: Click here for ramathian. </font>
<font color='#CCCCCC'>Eka looked up at the teacher while she talked and smiled at now knowing that a few of them also had Ramathain names. She nodded to show that she understood. It was easy enough. She listen to Nafels question. After Tryphaena finish explaning she nodded to show that she understood that too. She takes down the notes about fire, water, air and earth down on her paper to help her out later. Then writes down elemental magic with the glyphs. She saw that her writing was improving. DidnÂ’t have any question just yet so she would wait and see if any one else had some questions. OoC: Those things are so cool Zeva. I love them.</font>
<font color='#48CCCD'>Nafel nods and talkes some notes. She blinks her eyes and looks at the clock. They've been in class for about an hour, she thinks. She stretches her legs under the table, they're getting cramped from staying in one position. She looks around the room. No hands are raised, she wonders what will happen next.</font>
<font color='#00FFFF'>Drak jotted down notes here and there silently. It wasn't that he was shy, just kind of bored. He never liked learning writing and grammar, but he did his best, and understood it quite well. As the teacher wrote on the board, Drak tried to copy down the Ramathian symbols, but they were very difficult, and Drak was thrilled about the idea of "drawing" every letter he would have to write if he used Ramathian. Hopefully it would become easier later on. Drak decided to raise his hand so that he could say something. He had been in the same position for quite a long time, and was getting rather restless. "What do you do when something is being said? Does Ramathian have any kind of punctuation to signigy that something is being spoken?"</font>
<font color='#48CCCD'>Nafel looks at Drak. She is interested in the question, as it seems like a valid point. She thinks to herself I wonder if I'll be able to learn this all... I hope I don't screw up. She bites at her writing utensil, fidgety. She shifts her legs to a more comfortable position on the pillow. She wonders what to do when she gets back home, she wants to make some tea. Her mouth waters at the thought. OOC // Where do students stay in Janardan? Do they have dorms?</font>
<font color='#A255'>Shark, who had been relatively silent this entire period, quietly taking notes, suddenly glanced upwards, ready with a question. "Miss... though they are immensely cool looking, the Ramathian characters are also a tad complex, what with their lines varying width and stuff like that. I'm sure that one could qucikyl jot them down in a much more casual, though less proper way... would such a thing deduct points from our work in this class?" Nicely put, she had the attenion span of a gnat. ooc// dude, zeva, i drool over your feet. xD love the alphabet/</font>
<font color='#48CCCD'>Nafel looks at the speaker. Hastilly, she looks at her notes she's taken. She notices that would be convenient, but she's already done it. She blushes slightly at her mess-up. She turns to the board to fix her mistakes, munute as they might be. She looks at the teacher, awaiting a reply.</font>
<font color='698AAB'>\\ OOC: I'm here! lol! I live! -- Sorry for holding this up. Dead brain due to cold. XP But I'm back now. \\ IC Tryphaena nods to Drak, smiling brightly, <span style='color:#A41547'>"Yes, in fact! In modern speech, as you know, we use quotation marks, and in Ramathian, what we consider quotations are used as puncuation. So, to divide written speech from story or actions, you would simply create a new line. Very good question!"</span> She then turns to Shark, and grinning impishly, this would be clown of a teacher confides, <span style='color:#A41547'>"Fudging the script a bit? Yes, I was quite famous for irritating my own professor.."</span> She giggles, <span style='color:#A41547'>"That's one of the reasons Ramathian is so difficult to write in, the glyphs being so complex. But yes, like with anything, there are many versions and variations of glyphs as they turned from ramathian to modern characters. "Shorthanded writing was jotted down with mostly the lines only, as an inked claw could very easily scratch the major lines, or largest lines, out on parchment. The minor lines, or small lines, and dots would be added in afterward as a 'pretty' factor. Quite like the difference between print and script. So, yes, you can write out the major lines of the glyphs, so long as you remember where the small lines and dots go, especially for much more finicky teachers, who are also proficient in Ramathian."</span> she winks conspiratorily. She knew most were fussy, but as long as she could read their writing, she didn't mind how crumpled or smudged it got to her. Gods knew she turned in many sopping, smudged, crumpled, pet-ate-my-homework sheets to angry professors..!</font>
<font color='#48CCCD'>Nafel nods. She makes notes of what has just been said, resting her hand a bit. <span style='color:white'>"Um... I was wondering how long it took for the language of Ramathian to take hold? What was it's predecessor? Did it have one? Or was it the first recorded language?"</span> She looks down, rubbing her paw to ease the writer's cramps.</font>
<font color='#8D38C9'>OOC: Sorry I've been missing for a while X.x By the way, Zeva, you should make that Ramthian writing into a real font to use on the computer...unless thats the whole point and I'm just stoopid. Eee. X.x; IC: Jac, who was silently taking notes, fidgeted around on her pouf a bit. She put her pen down on her paper, she tried to get a bit more comfortable, yet she then knocked her pen on the floor with her elbow. It made a loud 'clink' sound as it landed. Jac squeaked, and looked around nervously, hoping nobody heard it. She quickly reached down, and swiped the pen from the floor, and continued taking notes, her tail flame blushing pink a bit, as her tail curled up. Ack...I better not do that again... She thought desperatly to herself.</font>
<font color='#728FCE'>Eka looked around after writing a few more words on her paper. Her ears twitched at a sound that made her look around but couldn’t tell where it came from. She turned back around. She saw that Nafel was rubbing her paw, she was then hit with an idea. <span style='color:009900'>“Nafel, I noticed that your paw is hurting and I was just wondering if you would like if I used some of my healing powers to maybe loosen up the mussels a bit. But only if that’s okay with you"</span> She asked, kinda hoping for something to do. She wasn’t one to sit down for long amounts of time and hoping to help. It was one of the reasons she took healing.</font>
<font color='#CCCCCC'>Ugh... my paw is cramping again... thought Nafel, as she massaged the offending extremity, trying to get it to losen up. All the magic in the world wouldn't help her, no matter how much she supplemented her strength, her arms and legs still cramped. Nafel looked up, interupted from her thought. "Uh... sure! Are you a healer?" She figured the 'Dragon was something of the sort, or she wouldn't have offered. "I'd love to have this cramp on my paw fixed, if you could. I supplement my strength with magic, but I still cramp a lot when writing. It's a pain." She shook her head, holding out her offending paw.</font>
<font color='#728FCE'>Eka nodded and smiled. <span style='color:009900'>“Yes, I have taken some and this shouldn’t be to hard I don’t think."</span>  She was pretty confident, she had other done some small things for her sister after she was done fighting practice. She thought about what Nafel had said about it happening before. She wouldn’t be able to make it stop forever but at least make it go away for a while.  She placed her small paws onto Nafel’s paw. She closed her eyes and concentrated on the mussels. She sent some of her power into them trying to coax them to relax. Her power came out in a greenish glow as it often did. She spread her power all throughout Nafel’s paw. She could now feel them start to loosen. She held her paws there for a few seconds longer.  She opened her eyes and looked up at Nafel. <span style='color:009900'>"Does it feel any better?"</span> She asked not completely sure it worked.</font>
