I was still sitting in that bloody awful mess hall nursing another coffee, and something on a plate, which could actually be alive considering. After much searching and explaining to Daniel about what I decided I was looking for on my laptop; it was a cross between proto Aramaic & Sumerian. I found a couple of symbols I was looking for. Needless to say, Daniels' expertise with languages is different, and probably better than mine, all his are races encountered via the Stargate network, most of mine aren't, i.e. languages I used to speak. Don't forget that the Stargate on earth has been 'out of action' for over 5000 years, buried until the 1920s'.
Immortals who have been alive a long while pick up a lot of languages and tend not to learn extra ones unless absolutely necessary. Especially with our long lives and languages constantly changing, learning old 'dead' languages is not really a pursuit we tend to get involved in as trying to keep up with the modern world challenge enough.
"I really dislike necromancy in all its' forms"
"I can, errm, see why raising then dead might be problem, but is there a reason that you dislike them" inquired Daniel. Magic itself has lots of areas of expertise, from battle magic, to illusionists and of course black magic & necromancy (hack spit!).
I had wanted to learn magic since I was little, except the latter two(necromancy, hack spit!). Whoever said an Immortal can't have a few issues. Don't go thinking that I use magic a lot because I really really don't.
It's easier to use an electronic listening device or powerful binoculars than use scrying magic to listen or watch someone. I have to concentrate, visualise, and let the magic flow through my body & generally towards a target. An incantation will be required if I'm using sorcery. The same is also true for more aggressive magic e.g. fireballs or lightening bolts, or I pull a gun and shoot them dead. I love the 21st Century; things are so much easier. Conservation of energy is beautiful thing and sometimes I can be lazy.
"Well, all the necromancers I've ever met have been nasty, deceitful, toad eyed morons who'd sell anyone to get their desires; & needless it also requires a lot of human sacrifice for the more powerful stuff".
Actually the reason sacrifices are done by some mages; not me as I dislike killing an innocent animals or people generally, is that when something is brutally killed its energies double at death, or more depending on time of year, solstices & lunar eclipses etc. Most beings possess some magic energy even if they don't have the capacity to use it. I do not know why this is. I've asked these same questions to Oracles before only to be told "lesser beings do not need to know this", and flung out the portal again. If I was up there I'd be a lesser higher being with lots of questions, or down on Earth just a lesser being & I still have lots of questions. Don't know what is worse really. Maybe I'm just a cynic.
"Ah. Actually now I think about it some these symbols look very similar to ones we encountered a few months ago on PX43-254, I've got the books somewhere. I'm going to go find them"
It was my turn to say "I'll follow you this time, see you two later", didn't really see the point of Teal'c and Sam following. I can talk physics to Sam, but to a level, then she just loses me and my head spins. I'd like to understand how magic works from a scientific principle at some point, and yes I did ask that question too; any one want to guess what the Oracles answer was?
So I was following Daniel to his 'book room' where he does his research. I've been in here before, but this time there are more books. About two hours later we had translated a few other parts of the symbols. We were 'good to go', and I was confident that with Daniels' help I could dispel the mystic circles and runes safely. I probably could have done it anyway, but as the saying goes 'information is power' and you can never have too much. Needless to say Daniels' collection of old languages was truly impressive.
At this point there was a voice out of the speakers that said, obviously a regular occurrence at SGC, "unscheduled offworld activiation" as the emergency klaxons started blaring away. I have very sensitive hearing, and had to tune it out or get a headache. Me and Daniel arrived at the command centre last looking onto the gate room, Jack was there with Teal'c and Sam.