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| Arithmancy HW Post #4 urine trouble | Pat's Strong Confident Other Half | Pees Like a Champion Unicorn Racehorse SPOILER!!: Pao! ^_^ Quote:
Originally Posted by hpluvr037 Okay, hard part time! But first he took a quick glance over at Alec. He was coming along quite well! Catching the Seeker's eye, Pao gave him a quick 'Keep up the good work!' wink. Then it was back to business. Okay, that second word is definitely 'mate,' not 'math' or something. He substituted the E for the Q everywhere in the cypher. Seriously, only one other E in the whole thing? Wasn't that supposedly the most common letter in the English language? Sigh. Well, that lone V was definitely an I, at least. He scribbled that down as well, along with the rest of the newly-known I's. Oh, and U has to come after that Q in this language, right? Yeah. Hangman. Just... in the form of Arithmancy. Yeah.
THIS WAS AWESOME.
But... there was a lot of THINKING required. So Alec rested his elbow on the table and his chin on his palm as he sat there and, you guessed it, thought. His grey-blue eyes wandered around until they landed on... Pao's face. Oh hello there Mancini! At the wink, Alec grinned back, trying to silently encourage the boy as well.
Okay, maybe he should stop distracting the young Keeper.
Come on, Summers! HMMMM... So the Q word? That could be Quidditch, right? Because... well... he wasn't sure how many words began with the letter Q. And he wasn't sure how many words Pao knew that began with Q. And... it did fit... Alec bent his head and scribbled in the other letters, crossing out a few of his previous guesses as well.
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This was starting to get really messy. Eh, he'll fix it later and... maybe write a neatened version of the sentence later. ... OH! Wait! So if the E equalled to a U... he could add those in, right? And the other letters? AWESOME!
So... that last word? That had to be 'cup'. It... well... it couldn't be anything else could it? Because there wasn't such a thing as a Quidditch Cut, was there? No. Nodding to himself, Alec bent his head and scribbled in the guesses. Quote: L ahgc rc rlf oac Qelnnloxa Xeg!
I|A|U / _ _ p _ / _ _ / _ i|a|u _ / _ _ _ / Q u i|a|u d d i|a|u t c h / C u p ! ...
Wow! Pao Mancini was a smart boy!
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