[{"text_idx": "#000012", "text": "Of course, they\u2019re not real hieroglyphs from the Red Desert, I understand that, nor true runic letters either. After all, it was me who mastered that old charm belonging to Khepri which\nsounds like the beetles making the sound \u201cchep \u2013 chep \u2013 chep\u201d over and over, even when I was a kid. And I know lots about the Vikings\u2019 sei\u00f0r, although it\u2019s women who used to sing the spells most\noften. I'm completely confused to be honest. So, let me sleep on it, maybe I\u2019ll get some inspiration from the familiar spirits. Ta-ta till later, then!"}, {"text_idx": "#000025", "text": "(Half an hour later): Well, back to my linguistic problem. The thing\u2019s a piece of seven lines. There\u2019s a total of 49 \u201cwords,\u201d and there\u2019s 36 different words, and the majority of the\n\u201cwords\u201d are short. On average, there\u2019s seven \u201cwords\u201d in each of the lines. Then again, there\u2019s a total of 86 different symbols. That Fred\u2019s been giving me a helping hand, and it seems he knows\nhis stuff. He\u2019s done lots of translating before. The most common word (\u201ctha\u201d) appears six times, the next most common (\u201cla\u201d) is there five times, the third most common (\u201cthi\u201d) can be seen four\ntimes, and the fourth most common words (\u201cha\u201d and \u201cra\u201d) are there twice. Fred says that these words mean \u201cbe,\u201d \u201clots,\u201d \u201cnot,\u201d \u201cdo,\u201d and \u201chave\u201d \u2013 \u201csomehow or other\u201d \u2013 but things aren\u2019t as simple\nas all that, not by a long way, let me tell you. I\u2019m not sure about the grammar at all. And the biggest problem is that all the other \"words\" are different from each other."}, {"text_idx": "#000026", "text": "(An hour later again): Well, there was I, surfing the web, in the early hours of this morning, and I found lots of stuff on a website called \u201cThe Rosy Fortress.\u201d They talk about\neverything to do with codes and ciphers there, and they were able to send loads of stuff to me, including files with the \"Red Book of Rust and Blood,\" and \"Zleba\nHava\u00b7ro\u0301th\" in them. As it happens, it\u2019s a syllabary in the Good Doctor\u2019s problem, where \u201cS = sa, Y = ze, O = ni, Q = na, C = ra,\u201d and so on, and there\u2019s loads of other interesting\nsymbols too. Between all of us, we\u2019ve been able to turn the symbols into Kimbric letters (or Pretanic ones, or Etruscan ones, or whatever). Thank you very much, say I, to those boys, who\u2019ve got\ntoo much leisure time, definitely. Here\u2019s the results up no now, the words. But, I still don\u2019t know what the meaning is \u2013 I\u2019ve no clue, and those helpful (but exceptionally boring) people don\u2019t\nknow anything about it either. But Oh, Good Grief, I\u2019ve got to get my skates on!"}, {"text_idx": "#000029", "text": "Thuri the thi ropupaha hapi lisapa;"}, {"text_idx": "#000036", "text": "(Midday): Well, there we are, I\u2019ve succeeded at last. I\u2019ve been mitching to be honest, I\u2019ve had enough of the educational torture. I had to find some stuff my Dad translated here in\nAberdydd, and I\u2019ve worked the code out perfectly, probably. Thank goodness for the internet and all the misfits on the odd websites there \u2013 \u201cChildren of the Black Dawn\u201d this time! I don\u2019t just\nunderstand the writing system now, but the language itself, too, more or less. It\u2019s interesting I suppose, but very strange, if I\u2019m reading everything right in the little piece I have. It\u2019s some\nkind of charm or prayer. I wonder where it came from?"}, {"text_idx": "#000039", "text": "O hear these words of fire, this is my voice \u2013"}, {"text_idx": "#000049", "text": "(Half an hour to go!): Ooh, I want to be sure that I\u2019m looking my best, as it sounds like I\u2019ll have to perform tonight. The Good Doctor\u2019s talking about finding your true voice whilst\nweaving a story from magical language or something. And all of a sudden, I realized that those words are also in fact a list of creatures\u2019 names after all, if you read them differently. Like\nsomething from some old tale from the Nw Yrth \u2013 I\u2019d swear I could hear the voice of Rwm bel-Shafti\u0301 whispering questions to me on the warm breeze. Anyway, that\u2019s quite enough of that! Well, I\u2019ve\ndecided then, and I\u2019ll be wearing that kilt made of rainbow-coloured artificial leather Mum bought for me before she disappeared, the frilly shirt, the long black gown, and the red Docs boots.\nI\u2019ve got a bottle of non-alcoholic Fermented Honeydew, too. They\u2019re bound to like it (the kilt I mean, it\u2019s really colourful) \u2013 Oh, and the Honeydew too (it\u2019s awfully tasty)."}, {"text_idx": "#000063", "text": "Wrth gwrs, nage arwyddluniau go iawn o\u2019r Anialdir Coch ydyn nhw, w i\u2019n deall \u2018ny, na gwir lythrennau rwnig \u2018chwaith. Wedi\u2019r cwbl, fi o\u0302dd wedi meistroli \u2018r hen swyn \u2018na\u2019n perthyn i Khepri\nsy\u2019n swnio fel y chwilod yn gweud y sw\u0302n \u201cchep \u2013 chep \u2013 chep,\u201d drosodd a throsodd, hyd yn oed yn grwt! Ac w i\u2019n gwbod llawer am sei\u00f0r y Ficingiaid, er taw menywod o\u0302dd yn arfer canu\u2019r swynion gan\namla\u2019. W i wedi \u2018nrysu\u2019n llwyr a bod yn onest. \u2018Lly gadewch i fi feddwl dros y peth dros nos, falle bydda i\u2019n ca\u0302l \u2018yn ysbrydoli gan y dyfyn-ysbrydion. Ta ta tan toc, te!"}, {"text_idx": "#000076", "text": "(Hanner awr yn hwyrach): Wel, yn o\u0302l i \u2018mhroblem ieithyddol. Darn o saith llinell yw\u2019r peth. Ma\u2019 cyfanswm o 49 o eiriau, ac ma\u2019na 36 o eiriau gwahanol, ac ma\u2019r rhan fwya' o\u2019r \u201cgeiriau\u201d yn\nfyr. Ar gyfartaledd, ma\u2019 saith gair ym mhob llinell. Eto i gyd, mae\u2019 cyfanswm o 86 o symbolau gwahanol. Ma\u2019r Ffred \u2018na \u2018di bod yn rhoi help llaw i fi, ac ma\u2019n ymddangos fod e\u2019n gwbod \u2018i bethau.\nMa\u2019 wedi \u2018neud llawer o gyfieithu o\u2019r blaen. Ma\u2019r gair mwya\u2019 cyffredin (\u201ctha\u201d) yn ymddangos chwe gwaith, ma\u2019r un mwya\u2019 cyffredin ond un (\u201cla\u201d) yno bum gwaith, ma\u2019r trydydd mwyaf cyffredin (\u201cthi\u201d)\ni\u2019w weld bedair gwaith, ac ma\u2019r geiriau mwya\u2019 cyffredin ond tri (\u201cha\u201d a \u201cra\u201d) yno ddwywaith. Ma Ffred yn gweud bod y geiriau \u2018ma\u2019n golygu \u201cbod,\u201d \u201cllawer,\u201d \u201cddim,\u201d \u201cgwneud,\u201d a \u201ccael\u201d \u2013 \"rywsut\nne\u2019i gilydd\u201d \u2013 ond smo pethau mor syml a\u0302 \u2018ny oll, nage o bell ffordd, gadewch i fi weud wrthoch chi! Smo fi\u2019n siw\u0302r am y gramadeg o gwbl. A\u2019r broblem fwya\u2019 yw fod y \"geiriau\" eraill i gyd yn"}, {"text_idx": "#000077", "text": "(Awr yn hwyrach eto): Wel dyna o\u0302n i\u2019n syrffio\u2019r we, yn oriau ma\u0302n y bore \u2018ma, ac fe ges i hyd i lawer o stwff ar wefan o\u2019r enw \u201cYr Ysgor Rosliw.\u201d Ma\u2019n nhw\u2019n so\u0302n am bopeth i\u2019w \u2018neud a\u0302\nchodau a seiffrau yno, ac o\u0302n nhw\u2019n gallu hala llawer iawn o stwff ata i, yn cynnwys ffeiliau ac ynddyn nhw \"Lyfr Coch Rhwd a Gwaed,\" a \"Zleba Hava\u00b7ro\u0301th.\" Fel ma\u2019n digwydd,\nsillwyddor ydy ym mhroblem y Doethur Da, ble \u201cS = sa, Y = ze, O = ni, Q = na, C = ra,\u201d ac yn y blaen, ac ma\u2019na lawer o symbolau diddorol eraill \u2018fyd. Rhwng pawb ohonon ni, dyn ni \u2018di medru troi\u2019r\nsymbolau\u2019n llythrennau Kimbrig (ne\u2019 rai Pretanig, ne\u2019 rai Etrwsgaidd, ne\u2019 be\u2019 bynnag). Diolch yn fawr iawn, meddaf fi, i\u2019r bois \u2018na, sydd a\u0302 gormod o amser hamdden yn bendant. Dyma\u2019n canlyniadau\nhyd yn hyn, y geiriau. Ond, wn i\u2019m be\u2019 yw\u2019r ystyr eto \u2013 \u2018sdim clem \u2018da fi, a smo\u2019r bobol ddefnyddiol (ond eithriadol o ddiflas) yn gwbod dim byd \u2018chwaith amdano. Ond O, 'neno\u2019r Mawredd, rhaid i"}, {"text_idx": "#000083", "text": "O, clywch chwi'r geiriau hyn ar da\u0302n, dyma fy llais \u2013"}]