Caspar has a great and awesome power. Encouraged by the readiness with which Caspar absorbs the information Harrowheart dives right back in. He gets busy drawing some kind of three-column chart, above which he draws three circles. After checking the time on his phone he attempts to draw the hands of a clock in the middle circle, but he fucks it up right off the bat and has to try again. Soon he's got three clocks displaying a time slightly earlier than the present, the present, and the future.

For the present he writes "-IS." The past is "-NES." The future is "-VAS." He rewrites all of the pronouns, circles them as one, and writes an arrow to every verb suffix. It seems there's no declension of verbs at all in his language! That should make learning easy.

"Maj," Harrowheart says, and with it comes a gesture to indicate words from his mouth. To speak. "Majis lo." I speak. He points to his ears, then to Caspar. "Kelthis varë." You listen. The subject comes after the verb. But now he needs to work objects into the grammar. Hmm...

Ah! Yes! He jiggles the pen and introduces it as "Hamerung." He sets it down on the book, then as he grabs it announces, "Rejis. Hamerung rejis lo."

He sets down the pen and with a too-eager expression waits for Caspar to repeat him. Say it, Caspar. Say it. 8]