He had seen the strangest things in his short time in Certatori D'Arte and for the first time in his life, he was feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all. Helios still wore a grin in all his greetings but as he gazed upon the unfamiliar faces he felt a twinge of doubt in his gut. He took out this stress by carving but fueled by all the very artsy like canines that inhabited the pack he felt his work was not worth his admittance. Every stroke of the knife appeared to be uneven and poor, and in his frustration he had thrown his carving to the side.
Instead he turned to academics, in a pack situation he could take a moment to learn and reason with books and writing that he hadn't had time for before. So, he had placed himself in a shady place beneath a tree that gleamed with the reaction of fall. Red and gold hovered above him and he hoped that it would give him some sort of inspiration in his reading hopes. The youth had chosen a rather ominous book, at least by his standards, though it did not completely mimic the tombs he had also seen in his exploration for literature. Helios felt he had settled on a happy medium place.
Helios had expected ease, or at least quick learning when he had opened to the first page of the novel. However, instead of gliding through the finely printed text he found himself stuck on the very first page, unable to comprehend more than a few words at a time. He read better than he wrote, but he loathed the slowness that accompanied reading. Frustration and humiliation caused heat to rise in his face as he stared down at the text, wanting to simply throw it to the side and give up. How hard could the illiterate life be?
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