[Practicality over paranoia. Spend enough time hanging around a shrink and some of that verbal runaround and psychoanalysis stuff starts to rub off on you.
Besides, the only thing he can trust Caedra to do is be herself, and therefore be self-serving. It's egoism, not rocket science.]
Ship. [He corrects her without thinking, distracted, putting a few loose ends together.] If it can carry a boat, it's a ship.
[Nate moves to continue, because he suspects he wasn't dragged in here to argue naval semantics. Still nice to have confirmation on a few fragmentary elements unaffiliated with the shards they're actually looking for.]
The piece I have is about the same size, similar markings, just in different arrangements. There are some symbols that repeat, which indicates to me that it's communicative rather than just existing as a decorative element. I don't know yet if the symbols are representative equivalents of something or would translate to sounds, um, syllables of greater words.
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Besides, the only thing he can trust Caedra to do is be herself, and therefore be self-serving. It's egoism, not rocket science.]
Ship. [He corrects her without thinking, distracted, putting a few loose ends together.] If it can carry a boat, it's a ship.
[Nate moves to continue, because he suspects he wasn't dragged in here to argue naval semantics. Still nice to have confirmation on a few fragmentary elements unaffiliated with the shards they're actually looking for.]
The piece I have is about the same size, similar markings, just in different arrangements. There are some symbols that repeat, which indicates to me that it's communicative rather than just existing as a decorative element. I don't know yet if the symbols are representative equivalents of something or would translate to sounds, um, syllables of greater words.