Fic prompt fill for @nintenerd64: “Jodi doing daily things in the Downside, especially with *ae”
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Water, strictly speaking, was not difficult to find in the Downside. No, sometimes there was even an overabundance of it. But along with it came an overabundance of illnesses and complaints. Whether tainted with salt or fetid soils, poisoned by local flora and fauna, or simply impossible to retrieve, most water ended up being unusable even for washing one’s clothes, not to mention for any other purpose.
Mount Alodiel’s great cistern, then, seemed a boon like no other, and despite the tension everyone felt at the upcoming Rite, they decided almost unanimously that it was time for something that, at the very least, the humanoid members of the team sorely needed: a real bath.
Pyre does so much with its half-created language such that I tend to listen for inflections and tone (this is why Oralech’s sneering rendition of Noxalis gave me this like physical, want-to-get-further-away-from-the-screen reaction) but not focus on the words
Pamitha’s “Reader” sounds dainty (maybe that’s why it’s ‘translated’ as “darling Reader” but also sort of fey or arrogant – she knows it’s a Commonwealth-style word)
Whereas Gilman is like like “HELLO LORD MEGA WORD WATCHER”
saratogaroad 