"Pop! I told you this isn't how it works. Why do you keep skipping class and running off?"
At my shout, Pop, a humanoid monster three times my own size, bowed his head.
He fidgeted with hands absurdly small for his body, struggling to explain something.
"See! This is exactly why you can't even do sign language — because you keep skipping class."
Communicating with monsters wasn't easy, in any number of ways.
To begin with, very few monsters had vocal organs anything like a human's.
Since they couldn't manage human speech even if you taught it to them, sign language had been the alternative chosen instead. But even sign language had its limits — only some monsters had hands shaped anything like a human's.
So pictographs were what she'd come up with after that.
But no matter how many methods she tried, there was still a problem keeping communication…
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