Rurik looked at the piles of stuff as Dixie indicated them. He wasn't exactly sure why they would need the reading and writing things, he had never used any of them and turned out fine, but he didn't question it. He set his katana and cloak down by the door, resting the sword against the wall, and walked over to a pile of stuff and began sorting threw it.
He had never learned to read or write, so he saw little point in keeping books and writing tools. How were they suppose to communicate with pieces of paper that had odd squiggly lines all over it? If it were up to him they would take all this stuff, pile it up, and burn it all. But, it wasn't up to him, it was up to Jazper and Anann. he sorted threw the stuff quietly, tossing the usable books, or what he thought were usable, and writing tools into one pile while tossing the damaged ones near the door to be disposed of later. Any furniture he ran across he tossed into the pile that Dixie pointed to before. It was rather boring work, mundane and repetitive, but it was something.
He wasn't really looking at the things he was throwing, just glancing over them to see if they were damaged or not and tossing them into the correct pile. He had just thrown a badly water damaged book into the discard pile when a thought occurred to him, making him glance at Dixie and Wayne before turning back to his work. He was wondering if one or both of them could read. He debated asking, but didn't really want to since he wasn't sure if reading was a common skill, being a loner his whole life he wasn't sure what was common among other's and what wasn't. After a few more minuets of work he decided he would never know without asking. Hey... He said, without looking at them, but at his work instead. Can either of you read or write? He felt foolish for asking, but it was nice to have the silence broken, even if he had to be the one doing the breaking.
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