Just woke up next to a skeleton

[bread_goes_bip]

[Death wasn't really expecting to wake next to a skeleton today. Well, really, she wasn't expecting to wake up at all, since she wasn't intending to be mortal again for another ninety eight years or so. Definitely one of the stranger days of her existence.

Still, confusion is no reason to be rude. Never an excuse for that.]

Uh, good morning?

[Later in the day, Mayfield residents may find her wandering the town, taking everything in. She remembers the fifties, but she was never mortal during them so it's a whole new experience for her. She's likely to say hello!]

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[bread_goes_bip]

[Notices the frustration, can't be having that!]

Hey, is something bothering you?

[sveariket.livejournal.com]

[Lifts the book up for her to be better able to see it.]

[bread_goes_bip]

Is that for school?

[sveariket.livejournal.com]

[Nod in the affirmative] 'ntil tomorrow.

[bread_goes_bip]

Do you want some help with it?

[sveariket.livejournal.com]

...Can y' read 't?

[bread_goes_bip]

You should really do it yourself, but I can help you with the tricky bits if you want.

[sveariket.livejournal.com]

's too much fer two days. [And then he has to write this assignment... and hasn't even started on it. He'll probably not get half finished, since his writing is just wa to slow.]

[bread_goes_bip]

You're not really in the grade the town thinks you're in, are you?

[Didi's already figured a couple things out from the town deciding she's mortal now]

[sveariket.livejournal.com]

'm no scribe b'ck home. [He's never been to grammar school at all. He can read and write, but only runes, and they have a purpose that is entirely different from what modern texts are made for.]

[bread_goes_bip]

[Scribe... very different word choice. Death is starting to put it all together]

You're from a very different world from here, aren't you?

[sveariket.livejournal.com]

Th' past. [He guesses that this is at least some kind of his world's future, which means that his own present is probably very similar to this place's past.]

[bread_goes_bip]

Oh... that explains it then. [Death remembers the past quite well. And that reading and writing weren't nearly as commonplace.]

Well, let's take a look at this, shall we?

[sveariket.livejournal.com]

[To be fair, he can handle runes just fine (thhough he wouldn't be as fast as a modern person with their letters, simply because he never used them that casually). But Roman letters...

He shuffles to the side a bit to offer her a warm place to sit down, and holds the book up so she can look into it.]