For the trick or treat,, could I have a Sandra and Pauline just being besties treat?
Gotta say, bestie, you've got a knack for challenging me! Between requesting Duncan/Arald last year and Pauline & Sandra this year, you really like to make me write stuff with characters we don't have a lot of experience with :D
Be prepared for a couple one-off mentions of wine below, as well as crimes against German grammar ❤
also if i got the term second person plural wrong no i didn't ❤❤
For the first time in a very long time, Pauline and Sandra had no pressing work to do. Sandra got a bottle of wine from Redmont’s stores, and Pauline met her in one of the castle’s many comfortable parlours, where they sat in comfortable chairs to talk and catch up.
‘Well, you’ve certainly kept this room well-maintained,’ Pauline said, eyeing the full coal scuttle and freshly-dusted tables. ‘Do you come here often, Sandra?’
‘Well, lately I have,’ Sandra said. ‘I’ve been trying to write a short welcome speech for Lord Hartmuth and Lady Hildegard.’
Pauline furrowed her brow. ‘Lord and Lady who?’
‘Visiting from Teutlandt,’ Sandra explained. ‘They’re stopping here on their way to visit Castle Araluen. I was hoping to welcome them in Teutsch.’ Something seemed to occur to her midway through her sip of wine and she leaned forward. ‘You speak Teutsch, don’t you, Pauline?’
‘I do. Shall I take a look at what you have prepared?’ Pauline offered, suppressing her smile.
‘If you wouldn’t mind!’ Sandra hopped up and took a folder from a drawer in the desk, then went to Pauline’s chair. Pauline accepted it and took out the topmost piece of paper as Sandra curled up on the settee next to her. ‘I wouldn’t even call it a speech at this point. I’ve got various sentences I’ve put together with a dictionary. If you can give me feedback on the translations, I can try putting them together into a proper welcome for them.’
‘Hm.’ Pauline scanned the sentences. ‘You keep misconjugating verbs that follow Sie.’
‘Yes. You keep conjugating verbs in the third person singular, not second person plural.’ Seeing Sandra’s confused expression, she explained, ‘I’m sure you’re intending to use Sie in the sense of you, plural, but it also means she, and you keep translating it that way. This sentence, for example – Sie kann fragen für was Sie braucht? Translated directly, you’re saying she can ask for what she needs, but I presume you’re extending such an offer to the lord as well as the lady. In that case, it would be Sie können and Sie brauchen.’
‘I am,’ Sandra admitted, her cheeks now slightly pink. ‘Beyond that issue, how’s the rest of the sentence?’
‘Well…it’s a very direct translation, if slightly inelegant,’ Pauline said diplomatically.
Sandra laughed. ‘Pauline, Araluen’s finest jesters only wish they could be as cutting as you when you call something inelegant.’
Pauline laughed as well. ‘Would you like me to translate for you?’
‘That would be appreciated,’ Sandra said, still smiling. ‘Or maybe I should just speak to them in Common instead.’
