So, I heard you needed me? {Al}

     

He kept watching, glancing back at his two dragons, Mimi giving him a timid wave of the tail. As long as Mimi wasn't clawing him to hide in his jacket and tearing up his shirt, then Nikulas was fine. He turned his attention back to the girl and her dragon, not recognizing the language right off the bat. He would have to ask what her accent drifted from later, maybe she could give him some lessons. At any rate, he nodded. Sounded like he wanted to learn past tense. "So, you want to be able to express the past tense better, correct?" He might need to tone down his own language and, as his father said, stop talking like a noble. It was hard though. He read so much and most of his language came from the books he read which carried into how he talked which just caused problems when he tried to talk to his family.

Now where to start, he opened one of his books then turned it towards her, so she could read the words. "The past tense in Norse is pretty simple to understand but has its quirks," he began, pointing to one of the paragraphs. "This one is filled with past tense, as it is telling a story that already happened." He tilted his head to the side. How was he supposed to explain this? He was used to teaching others, unlike his father, but he was having issues thinking up examples to use. "First of all, the past is used for, well, the past. Commonly used with things that involve 'yesterday' or 'last week, month, year' so on and so forth. For example, last month, I traveled to the forest and stayed there for a week." Alright, so that was a horrible example. He couldn't think straight, he was too worried about Mimi, but he supposed the Terror would be fine. He looked up at Al, blinking. "Do you get it so far? Any questions?" He could teach science and language well, why was this so difficult? Was it because his brother said she was a royal from another place? Maybe, probably not. Nikulas guessed it was because he usually wasn't asked to teach language to someone outside of his family. That was probably it.