[Lack of common language was limiting, but there were ways around it. He wasn't a ranger in her army, so communicating without words was difficult, but not impossible. Meaning and gesture were what she had, and she would use them to the best of her ability.
She approached him, twining the lock of hair, her keepsake, through the fingers of one hand. The other, she raised and laid upon his shoulder, like she had done during the flood that had made her overly friendly. She'd told him after that of her aversion to touching, so this gesture would be significant. And since he couldn't understand her anyway, she abandoned Common and spoke in her native language.]
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Date: 2013-12-08 08:25 pm (UTC)She approached him, twining the lock of hair, her keepsake, through the fingers of one hand. The other, she raised and laid upon his shoulder, like she had done during the flood that had made her overly friendly. She'd told him after that of her aversion to touching, so this gesture would be significant. And since he couldn't understand her anyway, she abandoned Common and spoke in her native language.]
O'ther'a, inishore.