Yeah, chalk and slates are what kids learn on at first at home. I don't think paper is so hard to make there, but it is expensive enough that you can't really waste it.
And I have a few charcoal sticks. But once they're gone, I don't know if I'll be able to get any more. There was a fire that somebody made, and Orcelito was getting charcoal from there to thicken the ink with. But when nobody solved the one riddle, the fire turned into a big, fat firefly and nobody's been able to relight the actual fire since.
[Kit listens to his instructions, then just... stares as he creates a quill out of sand. Black sand. She'd heard that black sand existed in certain distant locations, but she'd never seen it before, never mind seen someone make a quill out of it.
She watches him write something, then offer her the quill. She takes it carefully- its made of sand, after all, and might be fragile- and kneels down to carefully copy what Pitch wrote. The result isn't nearly so neat as the original, but at least it's recognizable.]
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Yeah, chalk and slates are what kids learn on at first at home. I don't think paper is so hard to make there, but it is expensive enough that you can't really waste it.
And I have a few charcoal sticks. But once they're gone, I don't know if I'll be able to get any more. There was a fire that somebody made, and Orcelito was getting charcoal from there to thicken the ink with. But when nobody solved the one riddle, the fire turned into a big, fat firefly and nobody's been able to relight the actual fire since.
[Kit listens to his instructions, then just... stares as he creates a quill out of sand. Black sand. She'd heard that black sand existed in certain distant locations, but she'd never seen it before, never mind seen someone make a quill out of it.
She watches him write something, then offer her the quill. She takes it carefully- its made of sand, after all, and might be fragile- and kneels down to carefully copy what Pitch wrote. The result isn't nearly so neat as the original, but at least it's recognizable.]
How's that?