Didactic

Word of the Day Thursday, March 04, 2010

didactic

\dy-DAK-tik; duh-\ , adjective;

1. Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, "didactic essays."
2. Inclined to teach or moralize excessively; moralistic.

The droning, monotonous buzz of the tattoo needle was starting to drill its way into Elliott's brain.

She looked over and saw that the outlining was finished and he had started adding the color to her new tattoo. It didn't really hurt as badly as she had thought it would, maybe sort of like tracing on your skin with a razor blade. At first she had been concerned that getting a tattoo on the inside of her wrist would sever her arteries and bleed all over the place.

"This isn't going to like, sever my wrist and kill me or anything, right?" she asked as the guy pressed the pattern of the design over her wrist.

"Nah, this just goes into your epidermis layer of the skin. It won't hit any veins," he assured her quietly.

Elliott watched his purple gloved fingers move over the delicate blue veins showing through her wrist and hoped he knew what he was doing.

"Oh my God! Mom is going to kill you Elle," McKenna said for the hundredth time. Elliott had brought her along for support, but in-between her didactic lectures about defiling her body, she had been freaking out about their mother.

"Christ McKenna, what is the big deal? Mom doesn't even need to know about it," Elliott retorted irritably.

"Yeah, how are you going to hid that?" McKenna asked with a scoffing laugh.

"I'll just wear a bracelet over it," Elliot said with a shrug.

McKenna looked over her shoulder, "What is with the Hall's throat lozenge anyway? That may be the most random thing in the world to get tattooed onto your body."

Elliott shrugged again, and didn't consider for a moment telling McKenna the significance.