Fic: Friends and Acquaintances

[meridian_rose]

Title: Friends and Acquaintances
Fandom: Original
'Verse/Series: Kat
Pairing/Characters: Honor, Cal, implied/unrequited Honor/Kat
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 107
Prompt: For the writerverse drabble prompt "just friends"
Summary: The Old Tongue has several words for 'friend' as Honor discovers
Warnings: None


"Katerina mo cara es," Honor said carefully.

"No."

Honor frowned. "Should it be es mo Cara?"

"Either works, really," Cal said. "Not many people are speaking the Old Tongue fluently and written records have it both ways."

"I know. So what was wrong with that?"

"Not cara. That means friend."

"Yes." Honor said expectantly.

"Just friend. Like Briana is your friend. It's not wrong. Just inaccurate."

"So what do you suggest?" Honor demanded.

"Innooin."

"Meaning?"

"Beloved."

At Honor's expression, Cal added hastily, "I'd be innooin too. It's for anyone closer than an acquaintance. I'm not saying mo chroí, literally, 'my heart'."

However accurate that might actually be.

Comments

[meridian_rose]

Thank you. I'm still finding my way with the languages and cultures but this I thought was fun, the subtle differences between friend, close friend, and lover; it's why we have words like acquaintance, after all :D I wanted to write more but there was a specific upper word count for these drabbles!