First Day As A Teacher
RW Abbey: Library
The library is disturbingly empty of books and scrolls, and only a small fraction of the knowledge it should be able to hold is actually present and available for perusing. The beautifully crafted windows are well cleaned. Giving the library plenty of light during the daylight hours. This, combined with the room's high vaulted ceiling, causes a rather foreboding play of shadows in the corners and between shelves. The flagstones of the floor are cool and smooth, and echoes of clicks and thumps can be heard quite clearly when beasts walk among the mostly bare shelves. Brass lamps containing short, fat little white candles provide enough light for reading.
Light is beginning to filter in through the windows.
Exits/Entrances:
[G]reat [H]all [M]ap [B]ookshelf [B]ookshelf of [W]oodland [L]ore
[B]ookbinding [R]oom [H]istory [B]ookshelf [B]ookshelf of [B]iographies
[P]oetry [B]ookshelf [B]ookshelf of [S]tories
Contents:
Abbey Charter
Zinnia is reading some history of the abbey quietly, as she finds it of interest and always seems ready to learn more of it.
Thorn looks in the library and spots the badger; she quietly walks over to her, "Hi.." She says quietly as she looks around "Umm..Benar around?"
Zinnia looks up quickly and shakes her head "No he isn't right now, he may be busy with the abbey grounds, may I help you?" She offers a smile "I am Zinnia abbey recorder."
Thorn shrugs "I..oh, and my name is Thorn I was just looking for him but its ok. Recorder?..sounds neat"
Zinnia stands "Hello Thorn, and yeah but it took a lot of learning, I could help you learn some things maybe, how old are you? I have been told I am to..well teach the older dibbuns, not that you’re a dibbun ...well by.." She sighs" Sorry" she mutters.
Thorn glares a little, "Yea maybe by age..4 seasons so what?" She crosses her arms, "I am not very teachable so why try" She mutters.
Zinnia nods "Well, each have their own way of learning, I just stuck with it and seem to have this, remember things really quick as I learned to read and write very quickly, yeah at first it was slow going but I stayed with it and things went faster once I knew and I just wanted to know more and more. Like the abbey history, I want to know more and badger script I know as well, then maybe that’s a badger thing I don’t know"
Thorn shrugs "I don’t learn..fast and letters confuse me"
Zinnia says, "well can we try maybe, something simple maybe"
Thorn nods “Yeah…”
Zinnia nods and hmms as she looks for a simple book and opens it for Thorn as she smiles, "Maybe this one, it has something called common words...The..She..He..There..My...and so on, you can sound them out even, I use to not read well either when I first came here, had no friends at first either so I like to help you if I can, we can even work just me and you and I can work with the older ones, 4-6 seasons in another class. What do you say?"
Thorn manages a small smile "That sounds good, I like that idea. I can work at my own pace right?" She takes the book and looks at it, trying to remember the small words.
Zinnia smiles also, "See and yes of course you can learn at your own pace, I will help best I can ok?"
Thorn nods and goes to looking at the letters again and trying to sound out the words, it seems she knows some of the right sounds, and some she messes up on.
Zinnia goes over sounds and carefully writes out each letter A-Z and tells her the sounds of each a couple times each and lets her keep the paper to study later on if she wants "We can do numbers later. Do you know shapes and colors?"
Thorn nods "Yes...I know shapes and colors fairly well, it is at least one thing father taught me before he..died" She grows a little sad now.
Zinnia says, "I am sorry for your loss. My father, well both father anyways is dead and so is my mom" She doesn't go into detail as to what happen, she smiles after a while, But I have a Papa now, he adopted me and I also have an Uncle too"
Thorn shrugs "Whatever, don't think anyone would want me around and I have a mom, least I think she is my mom, I mean she could of lied"
Zinnia tilts her head "You think you have a mom? How can you not know if some beast is your mom or not?"
Thorn answers "Long story" She looks over the letters and repeats the sounds, messing up once or twice but correcting herself and then sighs as she starts to look tired of letters and small words after a half hour. "I'm hungry" She mutters.
Zinnia nods and closes the two books and sticks the paper in one of them "Did you want me to keep these somewhere or did you want to have them?" She stands "As for food maybe Friar Lacota has lunch ready or some sort of healthy snack before lunch, which I think is an hour away still"
Thorn nods "You keep them, ummm safe and yeah a snack be good..or we could try and get those way high pears still on the tree in the orchards, like two were forgotten."
Zinnia hmms "Well if they are high up could be hard to reach"
Thorn grins "I could climb the tree and get them" She goes to get up and rush out of the library and to the entry and towards the entry "Come on Zinnia! Or ya a slow poke!" Yes she intends to get those pears, most likely very juicy pears and she is willing to share.
Zinnia blinks and chuckles as she goes after Thorn, this may turn out to be an interesting day after all and she does need to get out of the library for a while.
