The message Bela laboriously wrote, her tongue in one corner of her mouth, was in cramped glyphics, the whole-concept code symbols of the Praxians, using a pen with a point as narrow as a syringe.

• 贝拉的舌头撇在一边的嘴角上，她用一支尖端像针头一样精细的笔，费力地用难懂的篆刻体写着消息，这是一整套普拉西斯的密码符号。