The House of Cards
About a month ago Vincent had been sent on a rather routine recruitment mission. Leona would see a “Card” in her visions of the future and send the scholar to recruit them. At this point he had found about two in the recent past, Cerock the Drakari, and Stella Stern. The former was adjusting to his new home quite well, often showing signs of his habitation but rarely ever making an appearance to the scholar. The latter was proving to be…a handful.
You younger looking girl had more or less attached herself to Vincent’s hip at all times. Everywhere he went, the youth followed like a lost puppy. It was endearing for the first day or two, her scampering around him calling out his name and pointing at things for him to name. As far as he could tell she didn't speak a lick of common, and that would prove to be an issue if she was to continue working for the Tarot Hierarchy.
The scholar has settled down into a routine of teaching her, starting first with her letters. He would sit her down with a quill and paper and force her to write down the alphabet, saying each letter as she scrawled it down. Once she knew her ABC’s Vincent began to teach her sounds. To any onlookers the scene would have been quite the sight. Stella sitting on a stool going “Aaaah” every time Vincent help up a sign marked A and “Buuuuh” every time he swapped to B.
However this only seemed to open the door for more interruptions in his studies. Stella would go explore the house at night, the only time she ever seemed to be awake, while Vincent was studying several tomes. She would find something interesting and come sprinting into the room with a grin on her face.
“Vincent! Vincent!” she would cry with glee, and then she would open her mouth and some chiming and whooshing noises would escape her lips as she waved something in his face for him to identify in Common. Usually this was harmless enough, unless she had found one of Alyssa’s guns lying about and was about to shoot him, or Ioder’s knives, of Leona’s soccer ball. The last one was less dangerous to him except for a very angry seer storming his study to chew him out.