For Wilhemina and Khardeen

[smithofwainola]

Ilmarinen has stuck up a large, visible sign. It is lettered in the precise, almost-drawn script of a man who is more used to drafting than to writing, and it is horribly misspelled. The one word that isn't part of a name is in another language--and also misspelled.

VILHIMINA BENNIDIKT IA KARDIIN, the sign reads. There is an arrow pointing to

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[sisterbenedict]

Wilhelmina manages, and she blinks at the sign, startled. "...what's my name doing there?" She asks no one in particular, with an air of consternation.

[smithofwainola]

"Are you Wilhemina, lady?" asks Ilmarinen, standing from his seat.

[sisterbenedict]

She turns and curtseys, quickly. "I am."

[smithofwainola]

He smiles, making a bow to her. "Do you know a woman known as Lydia? She said she knew you."

[sceltwarlord]

Khardeen is making eyebrows at the sign, trying to decide if that's supposed to be his name.

"...what language is the middle word in?" He decides on asking.

[smithofwainola]

"My own language. Of Wainola, on the plains of Kalevala," says Ilmarinen helpfully. By which he means: Finnish.