My Best Friend The Werewolf

Trollmarket

Eli tried to remain as serious as possible as Blinky led him and Steve through Trollmarket. Pointing out so many things that Toby had talked about before. He was here for a reason and as much as he wants to scream in joy and explore every inch of the place he swallows it and instead talks to Blinky about what's been found so far.

"Unfortunately whatever books on the Varulv where lost in the move over from Norway. Which is very frustrating but we have a few ancient scrolls that I'm currently trying to decipher but they're in a language that hasn't been used in a very long time. So I thought maybe you could help, Claire told me your good with languages"

Eli nods and turns to see Steve looking around, taking in every square inch for danger as he kept close to Eli's side.

"So what you basically have is an old piece of paper that is of no use to nobody?" Steve says and he still sounds tired.

When Eli had asked him to come with him to Trollmarket. At first, he thought Steve was just gonna roll over and go back to sleep. But the blond had pulled himself from bed and gotten dressed.

"Well, it will be of some use...once we figure out how to understand it." Blinky says leading them into a large room filled to the brim with books. The smell of old leather and papyrus made his nose twinge and he hoped his allergies didn't play up.

He rubs his nose as he takes it all in and he allows himself a single moment to celebrate the fact that he was in the Trollmarket Library and he was only the fourth ever human to do so. Blinky leads him over to the scroll section of the library.

Eli looks over it and tries to figure out exactly what language it would be...nothing came to mind though and he looks up when a pile of books topples over.

Steve looks sheepish, his hands still held out from where he had tried to stop the mini avalanche.

"Sorry Blinky" He mumbles as he sets about picking everything up and trying to stack it up again. Eli just laughs softly under his breathe and presses his glasses back into place from where they had slipped down his nose.

"Please be careful Master Steve. Some of these books are quite a bit older then me even and are very delicate" Blinky says and Steve nods sitting himself down in the middle of the floor as far away from all the books he could possibly touch and pulling out his phone.

"It looks like a drunk troll wrote this" Eli murmurs quite a while later, Steve looking through one random book or another he had picked up off the floor. His eyebrows deep set as he struggles to understand any of it.

Eli had tried to teach the jock how to read Trollish but that went about as well as tutoring him in Spanish. Which is to say, not that well at all and normally ended up with them both frustrated and tense.

"That gives me an idea" Blinky murmurs and he disappears from the room.
Eli looks back to the scroll and fifteen minutes later Blinky appears, a pink, smooth stone in one of his many hands.

"What's that gonna do?" Steve asks looking up.

"Well when Elijah said that it seemingly was written by a drunk troll, that gave me the idea that maybe only another drunk troll can have the chance of understanding it," Blinky says before shoving the stone into his mouth.

Eli just watches as Blinky hiccups pink bubbles and a giddy smile comes to his face.

"Let's get this scroll read!" He slurs loudly as he stumbles towards the table. Eli winces when Blinky sets his hands down on the table far too hard and it groans under his weight.

Steve just looks amused.

"Gibberish...absolutely gibberish!" Blinky grumbles and Eli realises why. It was upside down. He spins the scroll and Blinky's face lights up. "Ahh, there we go. Now that makes perfect sense."