79.hail-ripperthroat.7.7

Met with Van this evening in one of our favourite bars on the Middle wood road to finalise some details of his early life that I felt I didn't have enough detail on. As usually is the case with these meetings, we ended up consuming our fair share of ales and Van, as is also usual on these occasions, had to smoke and slurp his way through numerous narcotic substances. Yet, it has to be said, that this is when he is at his most lucid and then I am able to glean those little nuggets of information which would otherwise become lost in the ether of time. Being an offworlder, I am not always tuned into the subtleties and nuances that to a native can mean something entirely different, so on evenings like these, one word said in a different way can make all the difference to my understanding and subsequent transliteration, that makes it available to you, dear reader. Tonight's word: Mardy. Said in context: Thas reyt mardy, as a scratcher, which basically translates to: You bad tempered cat.