Fate Weaver's convergence

C17

"Okay, now read this passage."

Lorn stood beside me, hand on my shoulder as she read along with me. Scrutinizing every word as I spoke, pointing out when I misunderstood a word or skipped words.

"The territory of Morus is the final established territory within the empire, the territories flanking it being the furthest territories east of the empire."

I struggled with the reading but found myself improving with time, my writing proved much more difficult as everything I wrote was choppy and illegible. The language began to click as time passed. It was like I was simply refreshing knowledge I'd had for a good period of time already. It makes me wonder if the progress is only because I'm so young right now.

"Okay, next section."

Lorn guided me along with her finger, tracing underneath each line of letters.

"The territory to her north, Damus, is the northern frontier, the region with the greatest active expanse of the empire. The territory to her south, Va-Va-...."

I struggle and find myself unable to say the region name for some reason. Like something is pulling at me.

"What does this say?"

I pointed to the name of the region sheepishly. While I was fairly confident and moving forward with most I read, this was making me struggle surprisingly heavy. Lorn took a moment before reading it, looking to me for a moment.

"-Va-ren, the warring south, an old state of the empire, given reign of its old ways and ruled by numerous houses."

Lorn finished my sentence and looked at the book she had chosen for us to read from. At the continuation of the sentence, I felt a strange sense of nausea, holding my stomach for a moment.

Did I eat something bad?

When I collected myself, Lorn looked as if she were debating something within her head.

"This one may have been a poor choice Kiyomi, sorry for choosing a hard one."

Lorn apologized, shifting the book and proceeding to look over the passage once more.

"N-no, it's fine. I guess I was better at this than I really was. "

I attempted to brush the comment aside. Looking at me for a moment, she moved the book back to its spot in front of me.

"Your call, this will make your geography a lot faster to go through too. Getting this through to you will be a lot more effective this way."

She then proceeded to flick the tip of one of my horns.

"Ow, really?!"

I was reflexively grabbing my horns at the tips.

"You looked like you were nodding off earlier."

Lorn said, smiling smugly.

You just like to see me pout, damn sadist.

For the grandmother type, Lorn was mischievous. I had learned this quickly as she liked to keep some individuals on their toes. The longer I was around her and the others, I noticed they all had their own ways of interacting. For Hatsumi, it was jokes squeezed within their conversations wherever they could, and for Callum, she squeezed them into well-timed prods about his constant sexual activity."

Seeing him come home at night with women this whole week, I never saw, but it was very easy to tell...Perv.

"Next section now, you finish this, and you're free to go~."