[ Eventually, the Knight wipes the sand clean, and they study the Drifter for a little while before working busily at a more complicated set of symbols.
Long before they're finished, the Drifter will easily be able to tell that it involves them - that they are the subject of this particular sigil.
For their friend's benefit, they indicate where it represents something. An interlocking pattern to symbolise sickness, pointing-upwards swords to represent a fighter. Hands circling one another, for language. ]
MAKE-THESE
FOR-RECORDS
WILL-CARVE-IN-STONE
FOR-MEMORY
[ This is how the Knight stores information that is important to them. Preserves it, for the future. Even lacking comprehension of the symbols, it still indicates that the individual depicted was important to them.
Paper is fragile. Stone, they have discovered, is better for such things. The journals they'd picked up in their wanderings had proven that. ]
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Long before they're finished, the Drifter will easily be able to tell that it involves them - that they are the subject of this particular sigil.
For their friend's benefit, they indicate where it represents something. An interlocking pattern to symbolise sickness, pointing-upwards swords to represent a fighter. Hands circling one another, for language. ]
MAKE-THESE
FOR-RECORDS
WILL-CARVE-IN-STONE
FOR-MEMORY
[ This is how the Knight stores information that is important to them. Preserves it, for the future. Even lacking comprehension of the symbols, it still indicates that the individual depicted was important to them.
Paper is fragile. Stone, they have discovered, is better for such things. The journals they'd picked up in their wanderings had proven that. ]