THE KORA CHRONICLES: Her Chosen Fate

lesson#8: Language

I was happy when I found out I was going to spend the day with Muriel...not that she's the warrior celebrity...no....she was supposed to be my Language teacher....I knew this wouldn't take all day....it comes with being smart.....after having breakfast....I was escorted to Muriel's chambers....every warrior had  her room decorated to her liking....Muriel's well....was no exception but it was hardly decorated.....make it more like Halloween decorations... I saw too many owl heads....and skulls around but then...she was the messenger

"Have a seat" she said

I snapped out and sat down uncomfortably as she pulled two small books from a shelf then came to sit in front of me
She opened a book and set it before me...

"Do you have any idea what this is??" She asked
"Symbols???" I asked
"Words"

She took the other book and opened it

"What about this??"

I crosschecked The pages looking for anything familiar....to me they were just a bunch of symbols....they looked like something the Celtics or druids perhaps used to communicate with

"I don't really have any idea about ancient history....i recognize some of the Celtic ,Egyptian and Druid symbols because they are adopted in  the modern world...in some organizations"

She frowned at me and corked her head to one side

"Celtic...druid and what??"
"Egyptian??"
"Show me a symbol"

I looked at the book trying to find an Egyptian symbol but it was not there

"Its not here" I said
"These are druid symbols"
"I can draw an Egyptian symbol i know of if you want" I offered

She smiled at me and gave me a black chalk...coal probably... I don't know...it must've served as a pencil.... I opened the book to the back and carefully drew the eye of Horus
She took a look at it and smiled

"I've never seen any symbol like this one before?" She said

"You probably don't have Egypt in your map" I mumbled

She looked at me and placed the book in my hands

"Tell me about this Egypt"

I stared at her dumbfounded... I ditched world History classes...I hardly knew anything much interesting about Egypt other than river Nile...and the Gaza...and the Pharaohs...well....so much the obvious

"Well....I don't know much...but there are books about it....with many of it's symbols" I said
"I see"
"When I go back you can come with me and I'll get you a book....if you want"
"If we all survive"

And it hit me that I was not there to get private lessons...I was being trained to kill a tyrant....I swallowed hard and nodded....she loved symbolism... I could see that....but what could you expect from a messenger....other than finding various ways to communicate secretly...

"The language of the druids is oblivious to many of us....a mixture of it and the dragon tongue means another unknown language..." She said getting down into business

She placed the books on a table side to side  and pressed her palms on the pages
She took a paper and scribbled a few letters slash symbols she had taken from both druid and dragon book pages

"This is what you're supposed to learn" she said handing me the paper

I looked at it and I have to admit I was completely lost...very.....

"Apart from memorizing the symbols you need to understand what they mean.... Secrecy among warriors is important... Once you receive a message of that kind...its important that you decode it without making any misinterpretation....do not make the mistake of confusing the symbols...or adding something to the symbols...it might convey another message...."