Audio- A few days after New Tick

[saltnpepperbeard]

This machine has other all sorts of funny little functions I haven't learned yet, can one of them read? All the fucking things it seems to do, and I can't find a way to make it fucking useful apart from this.

[There's a crash as something or other is thrown, and a beat while Ed composes himself again.]

...Or I 'spose I could hire a boy? I don't suppose there's anyone here looking for that sort of work, mm? Don't have a lot to pay with round here, not that a bit of gold would do anyone much good, huh? Lots of fish to spare, and those annoying lobster lookin' things.

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[ziedrich_bearer]

I can help. No pay. I'll teach you to read.

[Because reading is good for a man. Hard to be a real man if you aren't reading, but that's just his opinion.]

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[saltnpepperbeard]

...Never said I couldn't. [He mutters a bit defensively. It's not so strange. 'Cept here most everyone seems to know how for some reason.]

...Maybe a lesson or two'd be all right.

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[ziedrich_bearer]

[Dude, you absolutely indicated you couldn't, but Gladio isn't calling that out.]

Cool. Wanna start now? We can meet at the diner.

[Drinking and learning to read probably don't go together.]

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[saltnpepperbeard]

[He absolutely did. But he didn't say it.]

'Spose we could do that. Nothing better to do.

[ziedrich_bearer]

Awesome. There's some great roasted meat today. Meet me there?

[saltnpepperbeard]

Sold. It'll take me a tic to get up there, make sure there's still some meat left.

[ziedrich_bearer]

You got it, Ed. I'll bring a book, an entertaining one. And paper. It's a slow progress thing.

[saltnpepperbeard]

Stede used to read the to the crew. Something about a wooden boy. Didn't pay much attention.

[ziedrich_bearer]

So it's a children's story book?

[saltnpepperbeard]

...It's just a book.

[ziedrich_bearer]

If the story he told was about a wooden puppet, it's a children's story.

...you're a children's story :-P

[saltnpepperbeard]

[A grumble.] I'll head out.

[ziedrich_bearer]

You got it man. You get through the first lesson, and we'll get a drink.