A Language Lesson With Idiots

After all the oddities from earlier today Ramses decided to visit Phyx and Sid's house, to see how Phyx was doing. he knew Sid was out and somehow human. he hadn't really thought of it before but if Sid was human since him and Phyx shared a house he was curious if Phyx was also human. to him it seemed a bit amusing but at the same time confusing as to how they could have changed. either way he just wanted to check up on his friend so he slowly knocked on the drow's door

The door opened and one of the drows sprites peaked out at Ramses. It brightened when it saw the man since it knew that he was one of Phyx's more favoured companions. The thing rattled off at length in it's language and took Ramses hand to pull him inside while it kept talking. Though it's words were unclear the meaning behind them came through to an extent. The thing was worried for it's master.

Ramses stayed quiet while the sprite talked, he didn’t speak sprite  but he knew something was not all well and good and that made him worried when the sprite pulled him in he followed it. whatever it was worried for he wanted to know. Once inside his ear lifted up trying to hear who else was where. “Prinz? Hello?”

Down the hall there was a familiar sounding squeak then a series of shuffles and the sound of the not-drow running for his room then diving into his bed to hide. The sprite waved it's free arm and drug Ramses faster.

Ramses frowned hearing the not-drow running, while the sprite drug him he picked up his pace and headed to Phyx’s room. “Prinz??..” he wasn’t too fond of the thought that something was wrong, and the way Phyx was acting did not help it

Curled up under his blankets was a ball of not drow that was swearing obscenities in his native tongue. The sprite tried so shove Ramses that way a bit, trying to get him to coax the man out of hiding.

Ramses sighed and walked towards the bed, he waved to the sprte as thanks for showing him where he was and turned back to the bed “Phyx? what are you doing?” he frowned not really understanding why his friend was acting so strangely

The worming pile of man stilled. "....hiding."

 “Why?” he raised an eyebrow and slowly walked over to the pile. gently he pat at the pile with a hand and frowned “there is no reason to hide in your own home.?”

Phyx whined and scooted closer to Ramses while still staying under the safety of his blankets. "Are...are your bandages on?"

 “i do not normally take them off so yes?.. why do you ask?..” Ramses sighed softly and continued to slowly pat at Phyx “are you alright?”

Phyx sobbed and wormed a little out of the blankets to peek at Ramses and make sure he wasn't going to look at him. When he saw the bandages he sobbed and flopped. "No! Sidney and I took this awful potion and now I look like a bearded mud dwarf! It's disgusting!"

Ramses raised an eyebrow and slowly pat at him again “i do not know what a bearded mud dwarf is but i doubt you look disgusting, Prinz.” Ramses had honestly no clue how to react to this nor how to really comfort him. opps

The now bigger man sniffled. " I look hideous! My skin is ashy and looks like the lightest of muds have been smeared on me! My eyes have these hideous white parts and my hair! Oh my poor beautiful hair!" Phyx sobbed and curled up some. "The potion was a curse! How dare it look so happy and make me so uncomfortable! Trickery! Trickery I say!"

Ramses frowned “Phyx. please i do not think the potion was meant to trick you as that.” he continued to pat at Phyx and sighed. honestly he didn’t know what to do since he really could not compare what he looked like before to now since.. bandages.. “i am sure you look very nice still Prinz. do not be so distraught by this i do not think it will last much longer.”

Phyx huffed. "I am ugly! I am bigger everywhere and there is this coarse hair all over in places that aren't my head and-" His whining stopped and the man grinned and leaned closer to Ramses. "You think I look nice normally~?"

Ramses was about to say something then cracked a smile when Phyx leaned closer and had stopped whining “yes?” he shook his head “i do not think that you are ugly now because of hairs or being bigger. it does not make much sense how that could make you ugly Prinz.”

Well now. That had him giggling. Phyx snickered softly  and wiggled some. "You like me~"

Ramses sighed and smiled “yes? we have been over this before. if i did not like you why would i continue to visit you? you are my friend it is impossible for anyone to not like a friend isn’t it?” he was glad to hear Phyx seemed to be in a better mood now..sortof

"Well yes but do you like me like me~?" If Ramses hadn't already noticed, Phyx had the attention span of a gnat.

No he noticed, he just hoped that it wouldn’t go back to the other subject. Though right now he was getting confused, and if the bandages had not been there Phyx would have seen him squinting in confusion. after a litttle bit of a pause Ramses finally said something “i do not get.. how repeating two words would get a different answer?..”

So help him-Phyx wormed around until he was free of his blanket trap and scooted every so close to Ramses. "It implies romantic involvement. Say yes~"

Ramses paused and tilted his head in even more confusion. his ears were almost vertical down his head because he honestly was trying to know what the hey that means. Phyx. understand he lived in a forest. as a guardian to animals and plants. he honestly has no idea what that means. Squat diddly about romance or romantic involvement. mating sure he knows about mating. romance not so much. he’s not very smart when it comes to these things- the other Waldgeists sure didn’t teach him about it. So Ramses was just searching his brain for the meaning. but hey Phyx said to say yes so.. “....yes?...”

That...hadn't actually been the answer he'd been expecting. Phyx went silent and stared at the bigger man then slowly started to grin. He sat up some then stole a cheek kiss and dove back under the blankets to hide, giggles coming out of him in waves.

Ramses paused from the kiss and more or less just stared off into space. eventually he sat on the edge of Phyx’s bed and just stayed silent. what the fudge just happened. the giggling seemed good though so he pat Phyx’s blanket bloob. Glad he was feeling better.

Phyx peeked out from the blanket to judge Ramses expression. Which...was hard given the bandages but the not-drow was still very pleased about them still being on because...mud dwarf.

Ramses honestly had a a very confused expression still trying to process everything but eh he’s finee. he stopped pattting him when Phyx moved. so he just that there for a bit. not entirely sure what to do.

Phyx snorted and took Ramses hand and wiggled his fingers in to intertwine them. he paused after a moment and whined. "I would rather have gotten a new beau when I didn't have sausage fingers and could kiss you properly....bleh. Oh well. At least one of us is still attractive~"

Ramses raised an eyebrow at Phyx and sorta just let him hold onto his hand. “Beau?” he sighed and shook his head “i am sure you are still attractive Prinz.”

Phyx made derpy noises that were actually a soft chant in drow and compared his palm to Ramses. He gagged at the look of his hand and moved so that he could see Ramses' hand instead. "Lover."

Ramses just sat there for a second before tilting his head “i do  not know what that word means either..”

"You speak common worse than I do. Um.....Mrann d'ssinss? Amant?" Phyx snapped his fingers a few times as he tried to remember the many languages he knew. "You're from earth-terra....earth-terra....the upper portion. Hmmm." Phyx sat up as he tried to think of a way to say in common what he didn't know how to say in Ramses language. "What is the word you say for those who are courting but not married and may never?"

Ramses tried thinking of a word but shook his head “i... don’t know of one?... where i lived there was not really such a thing as married.. i barely know what that word is now..?...” he made a face and sighed “i am still learning different things.”

Phyx would say Ramses had grown up under a rock but technically the drow had so he glossed over that particular earth-terra saying. He scratched the tip of his now thicker nose with his also thicker than normal fingers. "Hmmmm...tell me, how did your people pair off into famlies? What terms did you use for such things?" He was....honestly at a los and trying to think of any other terms for what he was trying to say.

Ramses made another face “the Waldgeist did not pair into families... the other animals found mates?..” he knew it wasn’t the exact same thing as marriage though. but that was what they did call it?..

AHHA! Phyx snapped. "Like that! Well. Not exactly. You are familiar with Jabress Thumbelina, yes? She is mated to the strix man. Mate implies that you will be with that being and only them. Beau is...much less complicated. It says that we share a fondness for each other and closeness but are not to attached that without one the other is useless like mates are...get it?"

Ramses nodded slowly “I understand that.” he sighed and raised an eyebrow “so we are like that?..” if you could see his eyes he’d probably still look confused. that wasn’t always how mates were back in the forest but it was for a majority. so guess that works

Good gods this man was dumb. Gorgeous but dumb. Good thing Phyx was superficial-He snickered and leaned back close to Ramses. "Yes~ We are now. You even have a pet name for me, it was meant to be." The not-drow went quiet for a long moment then said softly, "Thank you for coming to check on me. I...really don't like being like this and didn't want to be alone but I also didn't want anyone to see how hideous I am right now...I hope it wears off soon but it's been hours!"

 “..pet name?” Ramses sighed and pat at Phyx “i wanted to see if you were alright. Sidney had seemed fine as a human but you do not seem happy. i still do not see how you could be hideous by simply changing species?..” He is dumb. horrinbly dumb. he lived in a forest under a rock his entire life. the other spirits taught him jack besides what he needed to do to protect the animals and forests

"You call me Prinz~ I like it, it's cute. Like you~" The not-drow brightened considerably under the patting. "By the darkness you're precious~ I would hug you but my arms are huge and I don't want you to remember the feel of ugly human pressed against you so I'll just hug you twice later~"

Ramses paused before tilting his head “Prinz is Prince in German... besides the fact that i am not trying to be cute...” he sighed and pat at Phyx again “again i do not see how you could be ugly by being human now.”

[2:08:48 AM] BATNIX: "I know, you told me~ I still like that you call me it though~" Phyx stick out his tongue even though he knew Ramses couldn't see it. "I am ugly by comparison to my normal stunningly beautiful self~"

 “i cannot say anything against that.. since i do not see how you look now.” Ramses shrugged “i am glad you like the name though.”

Phyx whispered, "Ugly." He laughed softly and pulled the blankets around them more. "How can I give proper thanks for your cheering me up so? I can't offer what I normally would since......giant sausages for fingers and a body that won't cooperate properly but maybe you'd like something? Hmmm~?" He'd bat his lashes but the stupid black things weren't even long or delicately curled. How did humans stand being in such large clunky bodies?! It was torture!

Ramses still could not see those eyelashes man stop batting them at the blindfolded man. “i have nothing that i really would want? as long as you are cheered up and content then i am content as well.”

So. Damn. CUTE. Phyx grinned and stole another cheek kiss because he could. Damn his body and being so horrible right now, otherwise he'd be all over the cute dork. "Lay with me ssin'urn content~?"

once again he paused for awhile from the kiss before finally speaking “ssinurn?...” Ramses raised an eyebrow at Phyx and sighed silently.

"Beautiful, handsome, gorgeous glorious man~" Geeze, how many compliments did the man need?

Ramses sighed again “i am sorry i keep forgetting that word’s meaning.” he tilted his head “you do not mind if i lay here?” before you were so upset that you didn’t want your body touching mine but  now you want me to lay with you? how weird.

"you just like hearing how pretty you are, admit it~" Phyx snickered and wiggled aside a bit, pulling up a thin sheet to wrap around himself. "I wouldn't have asked if I didn't want you to~" Lookit Phyx all being able to use Ramses' logic on him. Whew boy.

Ramses shrugged “i do not see myself as pretty. so i would have to disagree.” Slowly ramses laid down on the bed”that is very true but it is nice to make sure.”

Phyx whispered as he wiggled close enough to kinda be touching Ramses but not be clung to him like he normally would have. "that's okay because I think you're beautiful~ And cute. Don't forget the cute." The not drow smiled into what now seemed like a dimly lit room and wiggled a tiny bit closer before stilling.

Ramses sighed and let Phyx move as close as he wanted. thankful he wasn’t as close as normal. considering that his markings let off a semi dim light it the room was probably slightly lighter now as well. “i do not understand how you could see me as that but i suppose i am not the best judge since i have no eyes at the moment.”

The man next to him snorted softly and waved a hand. "Shhhhh, even then it shows in your soul."

the Waldgeist paused for awhile not entirely sure how to respond “...how?” that was pretty much all he could figure to ask

Phyx opened his eyes back up and rolled a bit to be able to look at Ramses. "When...someone is good it shows about them. Your goodness radiates from you and says 'I am beautiful and kind, even if I don't know when someone is trying to bed me-"

 “trying to bed me?..” Ramses turned to Phyx and raised an eyebrow. his ears lifted up as well but shh. ignore them

"I'd be trying harder if I didn't feel like a trog-beast but yes. Since we met. You've been surprisingly evasive, I don't think I've ever quite had to try this hard before. It's...different."

I still do not know what that term means. it obviously means something different from being in the same bed but alright then. “ah?... i am sorry?..” how do you even respond to something you don’t know the meaning of?

Phyx watched him in that dim light. "You have no idea what I just said do you?"

 “not at all.”

He flopped and thunked his face into the bed with a groan and stayed there for a long moment sighing into the sheets. After a bit he rolled just enough to not muffle his words. "Let me teach you, but only when I am not....like this."

Ramses frowned and pat at the man “does me not knowing make you this upset?...”

He sighed again but wiggled closer into the pats. "More like it just makes it harder to seduce you if you have no idea what I'm trying to do. You are a challenge, ssin'urn."

“i am sorry?” Ramses couldn’t help but have a bit of a confused smile on his face as he pat phyx “should i try to make it easier on you?”

He started to bat his lashes again then gave up because of his stupid ugly black short lashes. "Maybe just snuggle me more sometimes~? I like to be held and touched-but not like this. Never if I'm not perfectly presented, I'd feel like I was cheating you out of something you deserved if I couldn't perform perfectly~"

Ramses sighed and raised an eyebrow “Snuggle?” he was actually starting to get annoyed with the fact he had no idea what half the words Phyx used were. and that seemed rather disappointing to him. Ramses simply pat at Phyx since he said to not hold him while like this and he’d been patting for awhile without complaint.”i again do  not see how you being in a different form would change so many things. but i suppose it would change some things..” Ramses touched his own ears and squinted through his blindfold. it would be odd to have human ears instead of these.. so it probably would make sense that Phyx has been complaining os much about the different body “do you know how long until it wears off?..”

"Pull me close and hold me, essentially." The not-drow sighed. "No...if it's permanent someone on this island is going to get an arrow shoved somewhere unpleasant until they make a counter potion though. I want to be lovey and graceful again not...giant and clunky."

“ah.” closer hug and holding means snuggle. got it. Ramses frowned “i do not think it is permanent.. i remember hearing Sidney mumbling about it not being permanent.” well.. it was either mumbles or he was just really far away. either or. ”i am sure you will be back to your graceful self again soon.”

He sobbed in relief. "Oh by the darkness I hope not! I tried to skip earlier and fell over my giant ugly feet, it was awful!" Phyx went quiet for a moment then whispered, "And you could kiss me back you know. Or just kiss me. I like those too~"

Ramses paused. once again squinting behind his blindfold before sighing and turning to Phyx, pulling him sorta closer and kissing his cheek before letting go and going back to how he was laying fiddling a bit with this thumbs. “i hope that was alright. i have not done that before.. also i am sorry to hear you are no longer able to skip in this form.”

That cinched it, not only was the man absolutely adorable, Phyx was 300% sure he was dealing with a virgin now. He supposed there was a first time for everything (BADUNTISS). The drow giggled and snuggled back into Ramses a bit without thinking about his new bulk. "Perfect~ I'll teach you other kisses when I'm back to my normal self. Bel'la beautiful boy~ Oh. How do you give thanks in your language again?"

Ramses sighed and pat at Phyx when he snuggled into him. there is more than one kind of kiss. got it. Ramses smiled a bit “i don’t think i ever said?.. but it is “Danke”..”

Dahn...ke? Daahn...Dan...why were their so many hard sounds in his language?! Phyx focused on the word and sounded it out a few times, trying to get rid of the slithery curl of his tongue that he had to use for his own language. "Then danke, Ramses. For all."

Ramses smiled and leaned a bit onto Phyx still sorta patting him “Bitte schön Phyx.” he paused for a second “...verzeihen Sie mir.. Prinz, i would thank you in your own language but i do not remember the word..” though i want to know why you are saying thank you. for all does not explain a lot

The not-drow preened under the attention. "Verssein? What is this? And bel'la. Bel'la is thanks and praises. Will you keep trying to teach me your tongue? It...I am good with languages but yours is difficult for me, the hardness of the words. Drow is flowing, many s's and sssssslithery syllables. But as strange as your language is to me it is also beautiful and so I would care to learn it if you'll put up with me butchering it for a while."

 “if you are willing to learn i am willing to teach it.” he smiled at Phyx “i would like to know your language as well. it sounds rather beautiful to my ears.” Ramses paused for a bit trying to figure out what the man had said. “verss.. oh. Verzeihen?.. Verzeihen Sie Mir. it means “forgive me.” Bel’la.. Bel’la is a very nice word i shall try to remember.”

"Verssiehnn? Versss...I...think I'll have to try that one for a while. Nelgeth is forgive in my tongue. It is commonly used when one is interrupting another for business or when a lesser is addressing their better." Phyx beamed. "Xas! You say it well!"

Ranses smiled “Verzeihen. the V is has a F sound Prinz. fer. ssei en. more or less. my language has... strange pronounciations for the letters.” he paused for a bit trying to figure out how to say Nelgeth. “Negl.. Ne.. i shall have to learn that one as well.” he would also remember when it is used. “Bel’la reminds me of another word from another language i have heard when i was in my old homeworld. “Bella” it as far as i remember meant beautiful. and Xas i am to assume means yes?”

He screwed up his face and tried again. "Ferssei'en? Is that closer? Ah! The boot people! Of ah....what is it called on earth-terra....itl something. I am afraid I did not pay much attention to the classes about your terra....But yes~ xas is yes. Our language was made to be spoken by dragon and spider folk. More mouth, less teeth, more talented tongue~"

Ramses nodded and smiled “much closer.” he paused a bit before laughing “yes the “boot people” it was called Italien.. Italy..” he listened to Phyx and smiled “dragon and spider? i never had met a dragon and most spiders were very tiny and hard to understand. even with my ears.” he shrugged “but my language is

"Who would name themselves after a boot? I always found that strange but maybe they make fine boots~ I miss having a proper shoemaker about. I used to have piles of the glorious little leather bound delights and now I am trapped here with but one pair to my name..." The drow blinked once then sat up in a rush. "You have never met any of the spider-kin? do you know of the goddess Lloth and her companions? Who do you worship if not the dark goddess?" Now he was really paying attention. Was it blasphemy to bed a heathen? .....naaaaaaaaaaaah

 “i wouldn’t know i never wore shoes. nor did any of the animals i met.” he chuckled until Phyx suddenly sat up, Ramses sat up as well in case something was wrong. he tilted his head listening to him “i.. was never taught any kind of worship. i was a Waldgeist.. a forest spirit.. in a way we were worshiped..but not to all that much of an extent.. simple story telling and carvings.. i... have not heard of “The Dark Goddess”?.. or of “Spider-kin”..”

All he could do was wheeze and rest one of his hands on the man's arm while he tried not to scream. The might of lloth had been beaten into him for over a century. Finding out that Ramses didn't even know about her was shocking at the very least. The not-drow wheezed more and rested his forehead on Ramses shoulder and tried to catch his breath. "You...are very lucky." And it was true. Servants of the goddess endured vicious amounts of pain to prove their loyalty and worth. If the gospel of her had never reached his homeworld...then it was probably a less dangerous place than the one Phyx hailed from.

Ramses blinked, not like phyx could see it, and frowned. “i am?.. danke?....” his frown stayed but he pat Phyx’s back gently trying to help him calm down because he had no idea what to do but hte man seemed rather concerned about the fact of not knowing the goddess so comfort patting.

He laughed softly and took Ramses' free hand and kissed his knuckles before just holding the thing and running his thumbs over the tops of his fingers. "Do you remember the markings on my skin? The pale ones? Let us just say that as an initiate to the fold of Ghaunadaur, that which lurks, I was...not willingly given them. The goddess' initiates are treated...much much worse. And those not of her rule and the rothe are often tortured and mutated into things which are unrecognizable from their first forms. So....xas, Ssin'urn. You are

Ramses frowned, wow that worship sounded awful. he didn’t really want to know about any others really anyway but ehh..”i am..sorry you had to  have that happen to you.”  he let Phyx touch his hand though did move his fingers a bit when the man’s thumb ran over them. “my markings were actually mostly natural for me..”

Ramses sighed and smiled when Phyx flopped “ as far as i could tell it was. i’ve been blindfolded most of my life so my perception of light is a bit off at times..”

He wiggled around on the bed, so much happier than he'd been before. "It is just...bright. Very very bright and it burns. I prefer the darkness. It is cool on my eye and skin and makes my hair seem as though it glows~" Well....his hair normally anyway.

“oh? it sounds quite nice. i do not really have any preference.. though i tend to enjoy the animals that are awake closer to nightfall a bit more.” Ramses layed back on the bed again “either way i can see rather well.”

Phyx wiggled back to be just kinda touching Ramses. "That's because the best of us come out at night~"

Ramses shrugged "i suppose. to me they were less clingy. which was

"Boooo, sometimes being close to another is nice. I like being close with you~"

"and i am fine with this as well.. i just do not like closeness too often.."

Phyx grinned and looked over at Ramses. "Then I'll try to get it out of my system in spurts~"

Ramses tilted his head at Phyx smiling a bit "sorry for the inconvenience~.."

"Shhhh~ I don't mind trying if it means you put up with me more~" Phyx patted Ramses just as he'd been patting the not-drow. "Bel'la, Ramses. If I fall asleep on you I'm sorry. It's just...it's been a very long day."

Ramses shrugged "it is fine. it seems like it was long day for you. hopefully if you do fall asleep you will wake up you again."

Phyx sighed softly and snuggled into the bed as he closed his eyes. "I hope so."

Ramses sighed and pat at Phyx not really sure what to do hopefully Phyx would feel more comfrotable now and sleep. since he didn't have all that nice of a day and all.

Phyx shared some of his blanket then drifted off. He was at peace now that there was a hot man in his bed.

well he had a bit of blanket on him now. he didn't like it... but ah well. Ramses kept still to let Phyx sleep. probably would take a nap himself.