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[wrigurun]

What wedding? I didn't know there was a wedding...

Are you listening? Hey!

[Wriggle bashes the terminal a few times and leans in closer as if that would help her see them again. She looks slightly uneasy but still curious]

Where'd you guys go? What else were you talking about?

Hey!

[She can barely recall the memories of using the terminal as an adult and she'd been fiddling with one when the video feed had suddenly turned on. It doesn't seem like she has any idea of what she's doing]

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[video]

[wrigurun]

[There's a moment of silence as she re-figured out how to select things on the screen and she makes a small noise of surprise once the menu comes up]

The screen changed, now what?

[video]

[geometry]

Now, uh... there should be a list of names in alphabetical order. Some of them have 1 or 2 next to them.

[video]

[wrigurun]

Uh... well there's some kind of list. I see ones and twos...

What names are on there?

[video]

[geometry]

Everyone in the Tower, I think. People with the same name have ones and twos.

[video]

[wrigurun]

[Slowly she nods]

So, everyone... right? Can you read the names to me?

[video]

[geometry]

...Everyone's names?

[video]

[wrigurun]

How else am I going to know who's there?

[video]

[geometry]

[Equius stares at the video for several seconds, and then says, deadly:]



You can't read.

[video]

[wrigurun]

I can read!

[There's a moments pause and she looks away from the screen]

...just only a few words.

[video]

[geometry]

Oh my god.

[He actually stands up and walks offscreen, but doesn't bother to turn the feed off. He'll come back (probably), he just... needs a minute first.]

[(Un)fortunately, he does return to the camera again a bit later.]

Is anyone teaching you right now?

[video]

[wrigurun]

Huh? Hey! Where are you going!

[She smacks the screen, expecting that to bring him back but it doesn't. When Equius finally comes back she doesn't look too pleased]

What the heck was that for!?

[video]

[geometry]

Never mind. Sorry.

...

I just... you can't even read.

[video]

[wrigurun]

[Is it really that big of a deal?]

So what? I live in a forest, it's not like I need to read much.

[video]

[geometry]

You don't live in a forest anymore...

[video]

[wrigurun]

[It's only slight but that seems to have hit a nerve. The tone in her voice becomes slightly more desperate]

There are forests though! And there's the meadow and the insect nest!

[video]

[geometry]

Yes, but the rest of the tower is different from that, and you will need basic reading skills to survive...

Asking again. I guess.

Are you learning to read right now?

[video]

[wrigurun]

[Wriggle shrinks back. Biting her lip, she wants to start yelling again but that won't change anything. Even if there were forests in the tower they weren't her forest and she hates to be reminded. Looking slightly off to the side she shakes her head]

[video]

[geometry]

[Quietly:]

...Do you want me to teach you?

[video]

[wrigurun]

[She pouts again, slowly considering it]

Well... If I have to learn I guess it should probably be you.

[video]

[geometry]

It'd be in your best interest.

[video]

[wrigurun]

Okay, fine...

[All things considered, she was only acting like it was a chore because she felt she was being looked down own for being semi-illiterate. Even though Wriggle will admit her shortcomings eventually, it doesn't always come easily]

...Thanks for offering though.

[video]

[geometry]

You're welcome.

I just... don't want you to be at a disadvantage or anything. You know? [It's not even clear if he does.]

[video]

[wrigurun]

I'm not at a disadvantage, even if I can't read there's other stuff I can do better so it balances it out.

But I guess it would be handy...

[video]

[geometry]

Yeah.

Uh... will you be able to keep up with a regular schedule? [That is, will you forget to show?]

[video]

[wrigurun]

What do you mean?

[Probably not, at least until she can get the rhythm of it]