Just take a look at us

"How many times do I have to tell you?"  Nyaka groaned, shifting positions so that she was now hunched over Alcaeus, watching the screen he was working on.
Alcaeus flinched, not expecting her voice to be suddenly next to his ear.  Last he had checked, she had been on the other side of the room having a chat with that weird lizard thing....the thing she insisted not only had a name and rank, but also apparently cast some really great spells.  Yeah, he wasn't going to get mixed up in that relationship any time soon.
"Sorry," he answered.  "What, exactly, was I doing wrong?"  Perhaps a bit too snide, but he had been working on this project all night and was no longer sure whether or not he had blinked in the last few minutes.
Probably not a good sign.
"You keep spelling his name wrong!"  She hissed, jabbing a pointy finger at his monitor.  "It's R-A-I-I-S; you keep forgetting the second 'i'."
Alcaeus quickly corrected his mistake, "Sorry, sorry.  It's hard to keep track of all these weird names, you know."
Nyaka raised an eyebrow.  "Yeah, I think I know."

~Hammeh