focusing on the TV made Tess feel quite a bit better. Though every time she looked at one of the hobs, the pain in her head pulsed.

She stopped the DVD and shut off the TV. The hobs wandered off looking crestfallen at the end of anime night. The hobs liked her which made her happy for some reason.

Tess stood next to Titus. Circles, lines, geometric shapes, and strange symbols filled the graph paper. The symbols were different than the ones he had written on the board yesterday. She studied the symbols warily, trying to decipher their meaning, but the only word she remotely recognized was Coppéllia, which sounded like copper.

“Since your program is in Ur-Germanic, I decided to keep it in similar languages, though I'm not very good at the Germanic languages. I pat...

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