The book is a contract and a contract has to be legible, and legibility is not a courtesy in this building, it is a condition.

CorvinaIt takes ink. Ordinary ink will not sit on him. He was a man who thought ink should come out of the body that signed with it.

MioneSo we make ink the way he would have made it. That is filthy and it is the only thing that will work.

Corvina sets a shallow stone bowl on the lectern and a bone pen beside it, and then she goes up the stair and leaves them to it.