A Dandelion For The Sky

Snip, snippy, snippet!
TWWD again.

( Sorelia meets Ivan, finally. )

Yes, that is Ivan cursing in Russian. To be specific, it means "damn". Russian is a very long-winded language.

( And here's a bit of chapter two... )

Ivan is the close-mouthed sort, but at least a part of his tacit behaviour is due to the fact that he isn't entirely confident about his English skills. Therefore (and I hope this shows up later, when I post Ivan-POV snips) he spends a lot more time thinking than he does talking. No rambling internal monologues, but still.

Sorelia is a Southern girl, and I'm trying to get that through in her speech patterns without falling entirely into caricature. I usually write her dialogue and italicised thoughts with a tab open on Wiki's article on Southern dialects, trying to keep in mind grammatical quirks and words typical of the dialect. Since she's from Somewhere-Imaginary, Georgia, I can't exactly settle on a specific regional dialect, but I'm doing my best.

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: "Repeal of the Liscencing Laws" - The Pogues