(crosspost)

[pilfered_words]

 (Responding to this post about Eugenides copying the scroll for Kamet)

 

QoA:
 

He had to open the ink bottle with his teeth. The paper slid on the desk and needed to be held in place. If he used his stump, the bandages didn’t give him any purchase unless he pressed down quite firmly. The stump was tender, and it hurt. If he used his forearm, he not only covered up most of the paper he was trying to write on, he covered the top part of it - meaning that as he wrote, he would smear what he’d written.

 

 

TaT:
The handwriting had been atrocious - I could see why the scribes hadn’t let him work with the rest of the queen’s indentured - but the text had been by Enoclitus, and I’d never seen it before.