"Tucker tells me you're a whiz at languages," Warren said. "That you even memorized the Klingon dictionary in two weeks."
"Oh yeah!" Andrew squealed. "Klingon is pretty easy once you get past the foreign symbols. Did you know there's five-hundred and sixty-seven words for battle?"
"No," Warren flatly replied. "I did not know that."
"Yeah. And there are two-hundred and seven words for blood and…and nearly a thousand words for kill…"
"So what other languages besides made up ones do you know?"
"Oh, right. Well, I know Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Sumerian. I can read Egyptian hieroglyphs…"
Warren's face brightened. "They're all ancient languages. Biblical and mythic languages."
"Yeah," Andrew said. "I don't really like modern languages too much since they change all the time. But I do know some French and Italian and Spanish…they're pretty simple since they all come from Latin."
"How long did it take you to learn the other languages…Latin and Sumerian and those?"
Andrew's eyes stretched to the ceiling as he tried to remember. "Let's see…um, Latin was easy since I didn't have to learn new characters, so that only took me about a week. Sumerian and Greek and Hebrew took a bit longer – did you know Hebrew is read right to left? Oh, and I picked up on hieroglyphs after watching The Mummy – you know, the one with Brendan Fraser?"
"Yeah, I've seen that movie."
"Isn't Brendan Fraser wonderful in it?" Andrew asked in a hushed, serious tone. "All that running and waving a gun around…"
"So you learned hieroglyphs just by watching that movie?" Warren pressed.
"Well, I had to watch it about five times before I could put the symbols together. And I got a book on it from the library."
Warren nodded his head and grinned before getting up from the bed. "Andrew, in joining with me in taking on the Slayer, you'll have the chance to use that knowledge to summon power you've only dreamed of!"
"What…what kind of power?"
"Jonathan has already joined up," Warren said. "He's quite the little warlock, you know? But all those spells in all those musty books are in ancient languages. It would be difficult for him to learn those languages and concentrate on perfecting his magick."
Andrew rose slowly from the bed as he pieced together what Warren was asking of him. "I could translate those spells for him!"
"All right, Andrew!" Warren said slowly. "Just think…all that power waiting to be harnessed. And we three will be the ones to do it – your language skills, Jonathan's magick and my leadership abilities."
"The three of us…" Andrew repeated. "The Trio."
"Hey, I like that. That's what we'll call ourselves…The Trio." Andrew grinned uncontrollably.
"So, Andrew…are you in?"
Andrew didn't hesitate. "I'm in."
