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"Yeah, but she doesn't put any sugar in it or anything. She just drinks it."
He offered a hand to her, his brow furrowed. "Let me help you up."
She hesitated, looking down at the book. "Here. Let me, uh..." Her hand was shaking as she pulled out a piece of paper. She wrote it out and slid...
"She let me try it once. It was nasty."
He was gasping for breath, his arms shaking as he watched her. "Thank... thank you."
Her eyes widened, and she turned to Tez suddenly. "He said that?"
"No," she said, shaking her head. "I can't remember the last time she ate. She just drinks a lot of coffee. She told me it was to help her stay...
He looked over at her, panting. "God. You saved... you saved my life..."
Her brow furrowed. "What do you mean? He just said 'cartun'?"
She was quiet for a moment. "She hasn't been eating a lot lately, has she?"
He groaned, heading towards the beach. "God... Avice..."
Lark glanced over it. "Cartun. It implies like... a future joining. A merging of sorts."
"Really?"
He broke the surface, gasping for breath.
"Yes!" Lark said, clearly pleased. "This'll all get much clearer after some time. It's much more intuitive than you think."
"Is Mom going to have eggs?"
Lark pointed at the verb. "And see? We use this for the future tense. So 'tun' makes the verb for the future."
She nodded, looking up at him. "Okay. I love you, Dad."
The siren hissed, letting go and backing up, swimming away with a trail of black blood.
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