A Familiar Void

Chapter 6

By the time Louise and Bug had to head back to her dorm, neither of them managed any progress in understanding either of their languages.

Bug still seemed to be automatically translating anything that she wrote into its own language and then proceeded wrote in its own language. While Louise still struggled to understand the alphabets of Bugs.

Their efforts bore no results other than a couple of scrolls filled with meaningless scribbles of her Familiar, and her few attempts at her own.

Attempts that, from Kirche's mocking laughter when she saw them, were very poor. She seemed to have gotten over the awe of Bug making maps, and was back to bugging her instead.

It was, in her opinion, a mostly wasted day.

After Dinner, where she had tried and failed to feed Bug again, she decided it was enough for today.

So the two were heading back to her room. Louise looking irritatedly at the piece of paper that had both her alphabet and Bugs. It still didn't make sense to her, since the symbols that made it up were designed to be drawn together. She thought she could understand it more if she had Bug write it one by one.

But no luck.

In fact, with them not being connected to each other they seem to make even less sense.

She sighed and lowered the piece of paper from her face. While she shouldn't be so down at not being able to learn a new language in just one day, it felt kinda disappointing to her. She glanced at Bug, her Familiar was carrying the remaining scrolls that they hadn't use.

From the corner of her eye she saw Bug look at her. It turned its head back forward, raised it a bit and bent it forward.

She raised an eyebrow at the sight.

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"Put the scrolls on the table Bug, I'll handle it later." Louise shrugged off her cloak, placing it in the laundry basket for the maid to pick up tomorrow.

Bug followed her orders, dropping the parchment ontop the table, before it moved around to drop the quills separate from them.

"I'm going to head to the baths," she told it as it went to sit on the haystack "I'm going to need you to join me." She called out to it before it could sit down.

Bug tilted its head.

"Well since solid food doesn't work for you apparently," she looked into the socket where she had put more than a couple of cherries and smaller fruits "I figured that since you're a Water Spirit, you'd feed off water." She ran a hand through her hair "Besides that, I'd need something to relax after today."

It un-tilted its head, and then sat down on the hay stack.

"Hey!" She stomped towards Bug and stood over it "Look I'm trying to be nice and seeing what to feed you, you shouldn't just toss away a Master's kindness."

It looked up at her.

She crossed her arms "If you're feeling annoyed, then it's your fault as well Bug." Tapping her fingers against her arm she gave it a slight glare "If you just told me what you can eat, maybe I wouldn't have to drag you to the bath house."