Kaja's swordstaff decapitates a zombie as Ragnar swoops down. She hears teeth scrape against the metal of her armored boot, but they don't get enough purchase to crunch through, and Ragnar's up again, wheeling for a better strafing angle. There's only three left. She barks commands to her griffin and he banks, flaps, dives.
"Yeah. The healing and shielding scrolls I'll make for you guys all day, though."
"We can heal ourselves and our mounts, but if they could work on other people..."
"They can work on other people," he agrees. "Probably easier for them to, honestly, it's a bit hard to say a chant when you're bleeding out, I imagine."
She stops at a door which is closed. She doesn't knock, just waits.
Darren follows her lead and waits. No knocking.
"...The Winter Light grants that we can speak to anyone in its service?"
"I mean - mechanically. You sound like you're speaking English to me, are you actually speaking another language and is it translating for you? Did it give you knowledge on how to speak English? Can you purposely speak another language, even if it doesn't sound like you are to me?"
"Oh. I just think of what I want to say to you and the words come to me, and when you speak I understand you directly. If we have to speak to mixed crowds our voices can overlay."
"... We'll have to test that. It - sounds like it would work, since you're actually speaking English, but I don't know. Technically you can chant in your native language, but it has - effects. Strange, unpredictable effects."
"We can only do this to people," she mentions. "If no one's around I just speak Cirth."
"Oh. Then that'll be fine. Do you know languages that aren't Cirth, or is there a way you can hear what I say in English as English instead of translated? Writing it down, maybe?"
"I can hear you," she says. "I just understand you instead of - not. I don't know any second languages."
"Then I can come up with the chant in English and relay it to you to say. Good, that's convenient."
"Yeah." Pause. "Actually - can you translate things I say to Cirth, too? That would make figuring out my own chants a lot easier."
"I don't have anything else to do until Sister finishes her devotions and opens the door, although usually that sounds like the sort of thing an initiate would do."
"Well, it wouldn't be right now, I haven't - I don't have any spells or scrolls ready to need chants for, and the chant is the last thing you do once you've drawn the runes themselves."
"Oh. We don't currently have any mages associated with the Order," she mentions. "I don't know if it's something Sister will want to do."
"Not all of them do that. But they just - work in a very different way from paladins."
"Well, I - don't know the way paladins work, aside from killing zombies. But, for my magic, it takes a lot of time commitment up front and good puzzle-solving ability."