Thwip
The goblin accepts Jibrīl’s company with a small smile and a nod. “Tanks. Tisway.”
[Star Wars Wipe]
Wanting a chance to practice his Arabic, Thwip speaks to Jibrīl in his thickly accented manner as they stand upon the hill. Handing his spyglass over, Thwip asks him to see how the rest of the party are getting along. He then takes out his writing utensils and prepares for a rough sketch of his own.
In Arabic: “If vat I know of zee weazur of zis land in the early schpring is true, zee direction of zee clouds and zee angle of zee sun indicate zat zee paintur vas looking tovards zee XXXX. Zee colors of zee buildingks are vite so it vas not during zee ‘golden hours’, as zee painters call it.”
Thwip closes his eyes and tries to imagine how the world would look to a hawk.
– Working on the assumption that our painter was a skilled observer: They could see the tops of the buildings which means that he would be at a high vantage point himself. Not quite as high as the chalk layer but high enough. The line of trees are man-made, suggesting that this was farmland divided up among serfs before the military moved them out. If my guess is correct and this was farmland, there would have to be a larger source of water nearby than a well. Is that small building sitting on the edge of a reservoir or pond? It is some sort of deep depression with steep sides regardless. Unless this has all been overgrown by forest, the marks of such reworking of the land should still be seen even five hundred years later. And if it has been overgrown by forest that would make it all stand out from this hill land. –
Opening his eyes, Thwip begins drawing his layouts as if he were guessing the interior of a machine. Placing the assumed position of the painter on middle the bottom. Row of buildings in the upper right. Mystery hill on the upper left. Zig zags indicating where he thinks the remnants of the tree lines would be, leading to the small building and the mystery depression.
“Undless I am very mistakund, ve shoult be looking for a depression near two tall hillz vere zee land makes a shape like ziz I drew. Ve also schoult look for a body of vater. Vat do you zink?”
