2. verbology and subliming

solid verbs: to be, grow, evolve, takes, gives,
liquid verbs: seems appears looks try
vapor verbs:
subliming verbs [solid sublimes into gas]: transform turn become

you often saw small children running to school in the winter, every four steps blowing hard into the cold air and suddenly bursting wings out of their backs or flying into a fantastic tumble in the air. sometimes, they wore themselves out before even making it to the thatched building. the same thing sometimes happened to older sorts of humans, even though one became well warned before the age of ten.

It took a subliming word to work into the vapor. Sublimes were as often complex as they could be simple, and the best sublimers could force a steady cold clear stream of fog into the air as they sublimed. the weaker sorts didn't require much, and one could get by with a tobacco smoke, or the steam that rose of a pot of tea.

she woke up in a silent scream, her back arched as she tried to shake the dream. it hurt, it hurt, the cold did bother her so, she could feel the dry skin cracking and bursting in the bitter cold. she finally managed a scream out, and only the touch of his hand on her shoulder pulled her from her pain and her dream.