01-30-2008, 12:37 PM
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[/html]Tayui jerked her head quickly in a nod after Kieran did, almost unconsciously making the action. She sat down and crossed her legs under her, scooting over so she was sitting right beside the other male. He placed the book between them, opening it to the table of contents. It looked like a bit of the word had been ripped out, but Tayui had seen the term before in other books, and knew the two missing letters were a 't' and an 'a.'
She skimmed down the list, reading the few headers, and trying to make sense of the words beneath. Under The Beginning, it listed words she had never seen before, much less pronounce. The first three all ended with the same letters, but it was difficult to distinguish between them otherwise. "Pa... le... olithic," she stated, trying to sound out the word. She still had a long way to go before she could say entire words like Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, but she figured she was getting closer than when he had started reading a few winters ago. "What does that mean?" she murmured aloud, scanning down the next few headers.