"It's hard to tell, but I'm not sure 'refill' is even the right word? Like, I've never caught one being any less than full of ink, they actually just get smaller when I use them up."

"Bizarre. Well, hopefully the answers are in the books somewhere."

"Hopefully! We even know one word of the language for sure now!"

"And there'll be others, Delsmiar's super convenient that way."

"So like - it's some amount of usefullly targeted, she hasn't spent her whole life getting updates on the accurate eyelash count of everyone she meets and nothing else..."

"Ssssort of? It's--Oracles are good at paying more attention to relevant things, but the sheer amount of information that she's getting at any given point in time is--kind of overwhelming, or it would be for anyone whose brain didn't work the right way."

"...huh."

"She doesn't pay attention to most of it, but if you wanted her to recite some arbitrary number of useless facts she probably could."

"I can't think of a use for arbitrary numbers of useless facts, but if I do I'll ask, I guess."

"I can't think of a use for them either."

"I can imagine trading them to an athra for something, but there aren't any athrai here."

"Why would an athra want them?"

"Athrai are really weird. I could see one wanting a huge number of magically obtained useless facts that nobody else knew just because it's... abstractly interesting to have that even if the facts themselves aren't really that interesting and don't matter much for their own sake?"

"Well, Delsmiar would know them, at least until she forgot."

"Not literally nobody, just not a lot of people. Like - a collection of really obscure useless facts."

"Athrai: Extra Weird."

"Yep."

"I wonder how bad an idea it is for anyone who isn't you to experiment with this stuff."

"A pretty bad idea. Like - I forget if I've warned you already but if I have I'm warning you again - don't touch the magic ink, there's all kinds of safety warnings and I can't translate them but the pictures are pretty emphatic. I think that's why there's gloves in all the kits, so people can handle the spheres safely."

"Certainly convenient for my sister, my fiancee and I."

"Yeah, I guess so."

"They're not really everyday gloves but they'll certainly do while I figure out how to make something more convenient."

"Maybe the piles of cloth will help."

"Presumably! Do you also have scissors, needles and thread? Then all I'd need to do would be figure out a pattern that actually made comfortable gloves, I think that might be non-trivial."

"I have, uh, knives. Not so much needles and thread, sorry."