"Okay, what's a flight, then?"

"The thing we're doing right now."

"Ha. I meant in Korean."

Oh that was obviously the question he was asking you fucking moron. You're coming off like such a dunce.

"Nalgi. ...or bihaeng, that one's more common, just nal was on my mind," arghhhhhhhhhhh.

"Is there a connotation difference?" He's arcing toward the cottage now, coming to a midair brake above the front step and then letting go of his magic to settle on his feet. He puts Jaeha down and opens the door.

"Nalgi is mostly used as part of compounds, like... a b-bird that flies as opposed to a flightless bird?" Okay yes it's cold and he's walking in sweet air conditioned interiors he missed you.

"What's Korean for bird?"

"Sae. Should we go to bed for guiding?" Wait did that sound like a come-on. He did not mean it as a come-on. Obviously. Because this is not their relationship.

ARGH.

"Sure." Bedward. "So how do you turn that into a sentence, like 'a bird is flying' or 'birds fly' or whatever - which construction like that is simplest in Korean?"

"'The bird flies' is sae ga nanda. Sae is just bird, ga is the subject particle, and nanda is the plain present tense of nalda, to fly."

"No articles - no 'the' and 'a'?" Snuggle.

This can go on while they get Haru down to zero, eating away at Jaeha's backlash in the process but this time while he's awake the whole time.

Haru was right to suggest language learning; it's easy enough to concentrate on even while very backlashed, has zero emotional content, and he can just do.

...but once he's at zero Jaeha wants the bracelet back.

Totally valid. Haru gets up out of bed.

Aaaand it's back on.

"...haah."

"...okay?"

Slow nod. "Sorry. I'm... a useless lump when I'm backlashed."

"You were fine, I learned some words and got some flight practice in!"

"Glad I could be of service," at least on an intellectual level.

"Sorry I halfway froze you. We can get you snowpants and heavier duty gloves and a hat and stuff but I have the fashion sense of a scarecrow so you don't want me picking."

"I'm sure whatever birds are native to this area will forgive you your fashion crimes." ...what is he doing, he's making jokes now after he already said he wasn't going to do stupid shit like trying to convince Haru to be his friend, a r g h.

"That's worse, I can't even perform the office of a scarecrow! Anyway, I can do the native-guide consultation on cold weather gear for practical questions but don't come to me about brands and colors."

He stops himself from continuing the banter game before he gets too distracted by it. "Black goes with everything." ...also he should go put a shirt on, he's no longer being-guided horny but it's suddenly salient again.

"So I'm told but Ren tells me that if I wear black with black I look like I'm being a goth on purpose and also bad at it."

"I guess maybe a grey can work too. Or a white, we're espers, we've got the body to pull it off."

He needs to actually shut up.

"We are all glown up. - do tell me if I make a pun that doesn't work because it relies on having been on the Anglophone internet a little more than you may've ever bothered with. Oh, unrelatedly, we did not actually come to a conclusion on the mentioning the ankle bracelet situation, so I didn't, on our way out, did that sit okay or what?"