Logs:Tēnā Koe

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Cast
Setting

Lodge of the Children

Log

Kay is sitting with her legs under her and she's reading from a pile of papers she recently printed, her phone turned face down on the arm of the seat she's taken. She's wearing a bright yellow dress with white highlights. Her gaze only leaves the page occasionally to look at the nearby window and maybe look at her surrounding, as if expecting someone.

Rīpeka takes a little while longer to arrive than she'd planned when arranging the meeting, but arrive she does. "Hey, Kay. Sorry I'm late, the bus broke down and I had to wait for a transfer." She smiles at the other woman, moving to sit just opposite her. "How've you been?"

"I've been okay, focusing on a lot of different things recently." Kay sets down the papers on the ground, right next to her purse and grins slightly. "And it's no problem, I was just reviewing a few pages of note I made for this lesson."

"Good to know. Do you mind if I read over them, just to double-check where you're at?"

Kay neatly put them together then hand over the pile to Ripeka. The page are all hand written and it seems to be a vocabulary sheet of some kind with little annotation with the intent of translating. "I put that together only recently, so, writing them down was kind of the real work done so far."

Rīpeka takes the pile of pages, scanning them over quickly before handing them back to Kay. "Okay. You've got pronunciation down, right? That can be the hardest part of learning te reo, at least to start off with."

"I did listen to a few people say these words online, but I'm not guaranteeing it's perfect." Kayla says with a little smile. "I can try to recite the words and you can pelt me with candy when I get it wrong." she points to a bowl of sweets nearby.

"That works," Rīpeka chuckles quietly, leaning over to retrieve the bowl of sweets. "We can start with just counting, since that gets a wide variety of the sounds you'll need to master in."

"Oh I saw a video for that." Kay smiles brightly and clears her throat. "Tahi!" She moves the number of fingers appropriate to it. "Rua! Toru! Wha!" she mangles the number four's pronunciation terribly and winces. "Wha..." she repeats, better. "Rima!"

Picking a piece of candy out of the bowl, Rīpeka flicks it at Kay when she mangles Wha, but then smiles at the correction. "Closer. You want more of a Wha sound." She's careful to enunciate it clearly.

Kay shields herself from getting hit with her arms, laughing loud in the process. "it feels like I'm saying the start of the name Sven , but with different letters." she explains "And the confusion gets me every time." she set the flung candy aside. She clears her throat. "Ono!" she gets that one perfectly but she winces in advance for seven. "Whitu..." she kind of get it, but the WH sound of Maori is clearly what she's tripping over.

Rīpeka ponders for a moment. "Set aside any Nordic names, just focus on the correct pronunciation, okay? We don't really have an ess sound."

Kay takes a moment to focus, almost meditate, then opens her eyes again. "Whitu, Wha, Whitu, Wha" she repeats, slowly making progress toward a better pronunciation.

"You're getting there. Just keep practicing."

"It's a bit like I almost sound like an E could. WH sounds a bit like PH could." she nods, trying to make sense of the sound, as it probably helps her figuring out. "Whitu, Wha, Whitu, Wha." she manages it well enough. "Waru! Iwa! Tekau!" those she seems to have gotten pretty well.

"Good," Rīpeka praises. "Now do the whole lot in one sequence."

"Tahi, Rua, Toru, Wha, Rima." a beat for a breath. "Ono, Whitu, Waru, Iwa, Tekau." Kay counts slowly but makes the effort to get it right for each of the numbers, Wha and Whitu cause her to hesitate a little bit, but she ends up managing the words correctly.

"Excellent." Rīpeka smiles at the other woman. "Try counting up to twenty in your own time, okay? I want to focus on how to introduce yourself for now."

"Yeah I gathered that was a pretty important part." Kayla offers with a little nod. "How does it work exactly?" She leans forward to listen to the coming instruction.

"There's a few different ways of doing it, but to keep it simple, we'll go with just one of them for now." Rīpeka smiles slightly, offering Kay her hand. "Tēnā koe, ko Rīpeka tōku ingoa."

Kay shakes the hand in turn, smiling. "Tēnā koe, ko Kayla tōku ingoa?" she return the greeting, trying to repeat the words and replace the name, pronunciation is fine, the tone is hesitant.

"Close. You need to work on your confidence, but you got the long vowels right, which can trip people up."

"I wasn't confident because I'm not sure what I'm saying, I'm repeating sounds and sort of getting the idea that this is a greeting." Kay explains with a little chuckles. "Tēnā koe, ko Kayla tōku ingoa!" she repeats more firmly.

"Okay, so. Tēnā koe roughly translates to 'hi', but you'd only use it when greeting a single person. If you're greeting two people, it'd be tēna kōrua, while greeting three or more people you'd use tēnā koutou." Rīpeka pauses to take a sip from her water bottle. "Ko is a declarative particle, while tōku ingoa means "my name"."

Kayla nods and smiles understanding the variations on the words almost in an intuitive manner there. "Okay, I think I get it. Koe for one, Korua for two because it has the number two in it, Koutou for more."

"Pretty much." She considers the other woman. "Do you have any questions, right now?"

"How do you say I love you in a familial way to someone? And in a romantic way, is there a difference?" Of course that would be a thing she'd be curious. "I have an idea from the vocabulary I've been trying to build, but I'm pretty sure I'm missing something."

Rīpeka gives the relevant translations, since that's further in than her player ever got. She looks slightly curious, after. "Do you mind if I ask why?"

"I want to be able to say it to Peacekeeper when I get the chance and maybe to Mary when I feel ready." She says with a little blush. "In the various languages I can speak."

"Ah. I don't think I knew you and Mary were together, has that been happening for a while now?"

"It's a thing that's been slowly building and came to fruition recently." She smiles happily and shrug her shoulders. "And it's not like this was a full on plan from the beginnings."

"Well, congratulations, in any case." Rīpeka smiles at Kay. "I don't know Mary all that well, but I hope you and her are happy together."

Kay nods once and leans back into the seat, crossing her legs, she opens the candy she was pelted with earlier and eats it. "Thank you, it's appreciated. She's been teaching me a bit of Life magic."

"Oh? How's that going?" Rīpeka seems genuinely curious.

"So far it's a lot about adapting to the new magic? I've been focus on Death so much that it's been complicated to adapt it to allow a place for life." Kayla nods. "But Life is about changes and cycles and it's also about Death, so I'm slowly working on pulling that into the equations." she smiles. "I legitimately got sad when I got to feel an earthworm die under a sense life spell."

"Fair enough. I don't know a lot about Death because, well, Obrimos." She shrugs slightly. "Life is definitely fascinating, though."

"Hey, I taught it to Liezel just fine, if you ever want to learn more about it I'm definitely willing to teach." Kayla smiles. "I'm looking forward to exploring what I can feel and sense with it, once I finally get it down."

"I'll think about it, but it doesn't fit my current plans." Rīpeka returns the smile. "Are you just interested in learning to sense with it, or going further?"

"Right at this time I know I at least want to reach an apprentice level with it." Kay explains and shrugs. "I keep having these little ideas in my mind that never quite work out the way I want them to and I feel like it might help me achieve something else."

"Fair enough." Rīpeka grins slightly. "Fox has been helping me work on getting to Adept level in my understanding of it, because shapeshifting is fun."

"I'm hoping to discover how fun it is soon! I want to understand the higher levels in the abstract too, so I can keep shaping my own ideas and methods about it." She smiles.

"Talk to Fox, I'm sure they'd be happy to give you a demonstration."

"I saw how much fun she's been having with the spell when she showed up at the Consilium halls." A little smile goes there. "And proceeded to troll one of her friend while in an owl form."

"Yep, that sounds like them all right," Rīpeka chuckles. "Which friend was he trolling that time?"

"I think the name was Leta? Liezel was there too, but they weren't messing with her at all." She tries to remember.

"Not someone I've met yet, then." Rīpeka shrugs. "Liezel's pretty cool, though."

"Yes, she made a tool out of perfected materials for Rashida." She nods and smiles. "She's a great student to have as well. Taught me a few things about Death related things too, like Vampire existing."

"Oh? I didn't realise she'd met any of them." Rīpeka shrugs again. "Not that I've met many, for that matter."

"Liezel met one who wanted to know if we could fix the condition." A shrug of her shoulders. "Which sounds like...at the very least like Imperial magic to me or a temporary solution for us at best."

Rīpeka nods. "I can think of one possible temporary solution, but you'd need someone with Mastery level understanding of Life and at least Disciple level in Death to pull it off." She sighs, then. "And that's assuming it'd work, and not merely make the new body vampiric in turn."

"I looked one of their souls, one let me at Maddy's." she nods once. "It's... a pretty strange sight and I'm not sure if that's all you'd need to mess with them that way."

Another nod. "Might be something worth making a project of. If it does require Archmastery to manage, we'll at least know that much."

"We just need to find an understanding and willing vampire, because oh boy is this ground for some intense disagreement." A little grin. "You know how some of the consilium can get."

"Yep." Rīpeka rolls her eyes. "Humanity is the family of all, though, and that includes the vampires."

She gives a heartshape with her hands, this apparently makes Kay rather happy. "And guess who's the only Moros who'll have to be the emissary there."

"Baldur? Amity?" Rīpeka's clearly playing dumb. "Lövjería?"

"There's like six Moros in this town compared to a whopping twelve Obrimos." She chuckles good naturedly. "Two of them are in my Cadre."

"Yeah, I wonder why. Can't be because we're clearly the superior path." Rīpeka grins at her.

Kay laughs and shakes her head. "Look at you bragging out, Shiny-Shooter." She stick her tongue out at Rīpeka

Rīpeka chuckles, then. "Hey, nothing wrong with that, once in a while."

"I suppose not." She looks over her shoulder, toward the area where snacks are kept. "You want to go grab something to eat?"

"Sure, why not." Rīpeka rises, then.