Murkhdutt, his hands covered with dough, rushed to the front of his room, craned his neck to look out, tried to arrange his shikha with his wrists, and rubbing his eyes looked in the direction of the gate.

Turkey red:

The asemic text, by definition, cannot be “decoded”, for the whole point of it is that there isn't any code, so the “reader” has to encode it.

Kali reached with her own left hand and clasped Whit's, palm to palm; seconds later, they joined right hand to right hand, forming the mannaz symbol, the ancient runic sign for humanity, with the figure-eight of their crossed arms.