Alec's Day Is Done

by Nick

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“This,” said Blake between delivering blows to Alec, “is. just. great.”

“Wait,” Angela screamed, standing perfectly still. “I know the chant.”

“In,” Blake asked, “Arabic?”

“Um… no,” Angela replied. “I know the English.”

“This,” said Blake, “remains. just. great.”

“You,” Winters shouted, pointing to Angela, “say the chant in English. You,” she continued, pointing to Simon, “translate into Arabic. And you,” pointing to Blake, “keep doing whatever you’re doing. But you will explain this all to me soon enough.”

“Yeah, that works,” Simon said, looking to Angela.

“Um… okay,” Angela replied. “By the Magnum Innominandum … er, um, the Not-To-Be-Named-One, I banish you from life, Young One of Blackness.“

Simon paused, piecing the translation together. Finally he said: “ب ال نوت-تو-ب-نمد-ون , يبعد أنا أنت من حياة,من حالة سواد شباب واحدة”

Upon finishing the phrase, Alec’s body became sludge underneath Blake’s fists. “Good work,” Blake grunted, out of breath.

“Now explain everything to me,” Winters demanded.

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  1. Alec's Day Is Done

    Nick's Buddy Icon Nick

    Posted 7 months ago

    And I don’t know Arabic… at all. I used a machine translation service and it’s probably so horribly wrong that I would be ashamed. But it looks authentic for those of us that have no clue what Arabic means.

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    Fyora Cartagan's Buddy Icon Fyora Cartagan

    Posted 7 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Wow, how do you know so many languages, Nick?
    I marvel at your frequent use of languages vastly unfamiliar to me.

  3. Alec's Day Is Done

    Fyora Cartagan's Buddy Icon Fyora Cartagan

    Posted 7 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Haha, okay. (I didn’t see your comment until after mine was posted)
    You still have a lot of other languages you use, and obscure (or at least occult) references, and I am continually amazed by it.

  4. Alec's Day Is Done

    Nick's Buddy Icon Nick

    Posted 7 months ago

    I do know a fair share of languages: Latin, German, some Spanish, some Japanese, a little French and a touch of Russian. Unfortunately, I have no use for them in my day to day life, so the finer details completely slip away from me.

    As for the occult stuff, Howie knows a LOT more than me, I think. We’re basically pilfering the works of H.P. Lovecraft and his “disciples.”

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    Alexa ♥'s Buddy Icon Alexa ♥

    Posted 4 months ago

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    “Now explain everything to me,” Winters demanded
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    Alleluia

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