Invoke Tenzayil with Aghenit's tear to become Alawed, not dead but undying, alone.
She deciphered it not by cipher, but by the old tongue’s verb structure: tnzyl aghnyt alwd llmwt wbd
Elena burned her notes. She climbed down the tower, went to the North Gate, and with a hammer and chisel, defaced every letter of the ancient curse. The stone wept a black sap where she struck it, but she did not stop until the inscription was gone. Invoke Tenzayil with Aghenit's tear to become Alawed,
She tried a different approach. What if the original language wasn't Latin-rooted, but something older? Something from the pre-Fall tongue, where consonants carried meaning and vowels were implied? not dead but undying