>Teach her.
I sigh and try to fight the unnaturally good hearted urge, but I fail.
Honestly, it's not like I'm doing something important anyway.
The main difficulty will be communication. The written word is a complex beast even for those who can sound out words. She may be capable of copying one symbol, but she doesn't know what it means. Doesn't know how the words flow together.
A moment of contemplation results in a small epiphany. For this unusual case, a unusual style must be used. I'll have to teach her word by word, rather than letter by letter. It has its pros and cons, mostly cons, but it's the simplest way I can think of to teach.
Teaching will take a while though. The difficulty will be setting up a time when she can come learn, if she can't hear me. Simply telling her when to come is obviously out, and if she can't read or write I cannot pass her a note.
I try to pantomime it, to no avail. She simply stares at me, uncomprehending. I try again, pointing furiously at the sun, and then at the point in the sky that it would be at 4:00, but I can't seem to get the point across.
Angrily, I snatch the paper from her hand and scribble furiously with the charcoal. I draw a little pictograph of two humanlike figures meeting in the market. Underneath is a illustration of the sun at the correct point in the sky, and scribbled messily in the cramped space remaining is a drawing of her and me at the inn, with the sun in the same position.
Handing her my opus, I feel certain she'll understand.
She squints and flips the paper upside down. Tilts her head slightly to the left. Rotates the paper diagonally, and then holds it up to the sun. She looks at me, at the page, at me again, and then back at the page, and bites her lip so hard in thought a small droplet of blood appears, like a small ruby on her lips.
Come on lady, my drawings are not that bad.
She holds out the paper, shaking her head.
>Take the paper and leave. It's impossible.
>Let her keep the paper. You aren't going to use it. Maybe she can get someone else to help her.
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