[Cool is not a new word or a concept to Salvio, but not one he frequently uses himself. For Tessa's sake, he musters a,] Yes.
[Warm, but with no attempt to repeat the cool. It would only sound stupid from him. Carefully, he sets the Compendium in the space that he has cleared. Carefully, he begins to undo the straps that bind it.]
Its magic is inscrutable. The pages fill in order, as if it is an unseen hand writes in it--but the pages, they empty, as quickly as they fill. Words appear and then disappear, and are replaced by new words. Or drawings. Sketches. Things-- Ah, and mostly they are rendered in a code, of some sort. The words, that is. Phrases. The drawings remain drawings. Um, here--
[He smooths open a page and steps back to give her a better view. On the parchment page of the book, lines of text fade in and out in quick succession: !pbafO leT, vlY qxeQ !alebY, and then, the line after it, LifxE qfeP L, and the line below that, bE qlK. An illustration of a dragon in flight filters in, almost obscuring the last letter of the last inscrutable phrase.]
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[Warm, but with no attempt to repeat the cool. It would only sound stupid from him. Carefully, he sets the Compendium in the space that he has cleared. Carefully, he begins to undo the straps that bind it.]
Its magic is inscrutable. The pages fill in order, as if it is an unseen hand writes in it--but the pages, they empty, as quickly as they fill. Words appear and then disappear, and are replaced by new words. Or drawings. Sketches. Things-- Ah, and mostly they are rendered in a code, of some sort. The words, that is. Phrases. The drawings remain drawings. Um, here--
[He smooths open a page and steps back to give her a better view. On the parchment page of the book, lines of text fade in and out in quick succession: !pbafO leT, vlY qxeQ !alebY, and then, the line after it, LifxE qfeP L, and the line below that, bE qlK. An illustration of a dragon in flight filters in, almost obscuring the last letter of the last inscrutable phrase.]