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[schrodingerscockroach]

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Re: Evening 105

[daturameloxia]

Would you go with me this time to begin negotiations?

Re: Evening 105

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yeah, I can.

We should bring food.

Food never goes poorly.

Re: Evening 105

[daturameloxia]

Food! [Wylan never thought to bring food to negotiations.]

Re: Evening 105

[schrodingerscockroach]

Cookies are usually good.

Re: Evening 105

[daturameloxia]

[Frowning,] How do you make cookies?

Re: Evening 105

[schrodingerscockroach]

I know a recipe.

You'd probably be great at baking when you get familiar with it, its food chemistry. Other cooking has a lot of wiggle room, but baking is all about precise measurements to get the components to react in specific ways.

Re: Evening 105

[daturameloxia]

I would, except. [ Shifting his weight and dropping his voice.] I can’t read the recipe or the labels of the ingredients.

Re: Evening 105

[schrodingerscockroach]

...fair on that.

Luckily there is a fair amount of recipes where the 'steps' are the same. Mix the wets ingredients, mix the dry ingredients, put it all together, bake it for a certain temp for this long. Its a lot of numbers.

If its recipes I'm just writing down, we can make symbols. Any good recipe can fit on one page and half of it is just a bullet list of ingredients.

We really should start on figuring out how you can learn to read though.

Re: Evening 105

[daturameloxia]

Symbols work well enough but mostly it’s memorizing where things are, what things are.

[Wylan tenses at the thought of being taught to read again.]

Donnie says I have dyslexia.

Re: Evening 105

[schrodingerscockroach]

Dyslexia?

Oooooh, yeah, okay, that definitely explains why you were struggling to read. Dsylexia is rough if you don't have a teacher who knows how to compensate for that while teaching. The letters are hard to tell apart sort of thing, right?

Re: Evening 105

[daturameloxia]

They don’t look like letters in the first place.

[Wylan shakes his head.] They look like a bunch of insect legs that jump around constantly. I can’t identify what might even be a letter.

Re: Evening 105

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yeah, that would track with what I know.

Is it just words, or individual letters?

Re: Evening 105

[daturameloxia]

Both. [Wylan sighs in frustration.]

Re: Evening 105

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He hums.]

Okay, so simple patience isn't the answer, can't ever underestimate teachers just being assholes.

I'll need to do a little more research.

Re: Evening 105

[daturameloxia]

[Wylan nods and glances out at the sunshine streaming into the temple.] I think I might take a walk. [Go put things in order, count his plants, and such.]

Re: Evening 105

[schrodingerscockroach]

All right.

... [He reaches out and ruffles his hair.]

Good on you to try and help Minnow. Take it easy, okay?

Re: Evening 105

[daturameloxia]

[Wylan nods, grinning at the ruffle to his hair. That's so nice.]

I will. If I hear anything, I'll let you know.

[And off he goes!]