Embracing the Faithful, Protecting the Heretic.
A/N: College blah blah blah generic excuses about time
A/N2: Ok ok... back to the plot. This chapter is inspire by learning to translate biblical Hebrew to English, and all of the frustration it has brought about. BTW You know what is worse that learning one completely flawed and stupid language? Translating it into another flawed and stupid language. lol
Chapter 10: Chosen Errors
"I wrote it..." Aerith looked up from her sitting position. "Am I kicked out of the Solari or... worse."
Leona's face was serious as she glared. "Worse."
Aerith flinched as Leona's cracked her knuckles before she rolled her shoulder as if her neck was stiff.
"Tomorrow, we are sparing... and I'm not holding back." Leona turned away grinning.
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The room had remained in silence with Aerith reading over a combat manual Leona had brought for the fidgeting Lower Acolyte.
Diana was the one who broke the silence by abruptly slamming her hands on the table. "This is wrong."
Aerith flinched as she turned to face her. "What."
Diana was rubbing her eyes as she clinched her jaw. "You said High Elder Gyan was consolidating and copying old scrolls..."
Aerith nodded.
"Ether he made constant mistakes, or..." Diana paused, staring at the large tome. "Whole sections are missing... Narratives skipped. Words don't match up to with the subject they are talking about..."
Leona stood walking over to the table Diana was at. "Where?"
Diana ran her hand over the page as she scanned for the error she kept spotting. "Everywhere... it is constant. If you know how the old tongue should read it jumps out over and over."
Leona crossed her arms as she looked at the book. "I have not mastered it." Leona sighed slightly. "I haven't tried to ether... no one speaks the old tongue anymore."
Diana flipped back several pages and pointed. "The first part of the history of the Rakkor has almost no errors, but when it starts mention the 'Chosen'... errors are all over the place."
Leona leaned closer to the tome as if it would help her understand the strange symbols that covers the pages. "Show me."
Diana nodded as she pointed "This part skips ahead, like something was dropped form the text..." Diana turned to another page and pointed at a group of symbols on the page. "And that phrase... it is used to address the 'Chosen', and the second symbol translates to 'Chosen'. That symbol is only ever used to when talking about the Chosen." Diana looked at the page over.
"So?" Leona said crossing her arms.
Diana pointed to the first half of the symbols. "So the first part means 'both'... the line reads 'Both Chosen ascended to commune'." Diana pointed to the next section of the text. "Then it drops to a different symbol that is singular with 'The Chosen of the Sun scaled the peak of Mount Targon, While The Chosen...'."
Leona looked at the book. "While The Chosen.. what? Why did you stop?" Leona asked.
"It jumps... It just stops and jumps to a topic not about the Chosen at all..." Diana rubbed her eyes before she turned to face Aerith. "Let me see the original scrolls... If High Elder Gyan did change things... then the originals will be the proof."
Aerith looked at Leona who nodded back at her. "Ok but... can't we do it tomorrow... The scroll are really fragile. Come back tomorrow and I'll have everything set up for you."
Diana rubbed her neck as she sighed. "Fine but... fine." Diana looked away rubbing her eyes again. "This is insane... I knew that the Elders were blind to the Moon's power... but... but could they really be conspiring against it... I'll know tomorrow... Finally I'll know..."
A/N: This is just a brush up teaser for the mega post that is coming at the start of next week. (Starting Sunday... 1 chapter every day for a week.)
Should be fun... looking forward to your reactions. Enjoy dudes...