Modern Moomin AU

Chapter 3

"U." "N." "D." "E." "R."

"Space."

"T." "H."

"Uhh.." Moominpappa's eyes wandered across the keyboard that was under the reach of his fingers. "Where was the E again?"

When he spotted the letter "E", his finger instantly gave the key a tap. It gave him a clack in return.

"E."

In the middle of Moominpappa's struggle, the door behind him let out a creak. The door opened wide, revealing Moominmamma behind it, holding a tray.

"I bought you your coffee, Pappa." Moominmmama said.

"Thanks, Mamma." Moominpappa responded without turning away his attention from the keyboard. "You can put it down there."

Moominmamma proceeded to set down the cup of coffee next to the occupied Moominpappa.

"Are you writing a new novel, Papa?"

"Yes."

Moominpappa then continued to dart his eyes around the keyboard. His fingers were shaking, his leg was tapping the floor, and his tail was wagging anxiously.

Noticing this, Moominmamma asked. "Is something wrong, Pappa?"

Moominpappa stopped to turn his attention away from the keyboard to the concerned Moominmamma. "Mamma, i seem to be troubled with the whole typing thing."

Moominmamma couldn't even manage to hide her worry by showing a frown on her forehead. The Moomin Family bought the laptop so it could make Moominpapa's job a little easier. However, the effect seemed to be the opposite.

Without thinking too long, a light bulb went off in Moominmamma's head.

"Why don't you use the speech-to-text function, Pappa?" Moominmama advised. "Our dear Moomintroll told me about it and it's much easier than typing."

"Speech-to-text?"

"Yes. Then, i shall be going."

Moominmamma approached the door and grabbed its knob, before twisting it and giving it a pull. She left Pappa's office and left the door closed shut behind her.

Moominpappa sat there, dumbfounded. "Speech-to-text??"

After gaining a knowledge of the speech-to-text feature's existence, Moominpappa spent 10 minutes to type "How to use speech-to-text" on the search bar for a guide.

"Hngh," he groaned. "I miss papers."

His eyes scanned the article from the top to the bottom, absorbing new and useful informations.

He followed the instructions until a window popped up, commanding him to speak.

"Let's see, ahem--" he began.

"Under the moonlight, the little girl waited for the fallen star. The both of her ocean blue eyes glistened bright, even brighter than venus."

The program converted Moominpappa's voice into a single paragraph.

Moominpappa proceeded to read it out loud.
"Under the moonlight the little girl waited for the fallen star the both of her ocean blue eyes glisten bright brighter than penis....???"

"...What??"