Gosh! What a lot of kinds of ink! She needs gold ink, and a certain shade of scarlet, there it is, she mentions to Rúmil but not the ink seller that wizards used to have to do these parts in blood, and plenty of plain black, and two more colors that don't have to be anything specific but she likes this blue and this silver, thank you so much ink person, and then she will also need parchment and a pen and a couple of brushes.

Oh dear. Poor ink person. I could show you an example if you like, too, she adds.

They'd appreciate that.

So she pinches off another bit of wool and does Six-Second Musical Sample again.

Delightful! Ink is involved in the process? That's extraordinary. They appreciate the notice that demand will probably increase and might take them up on the offer of help.

Ink is involved, yep, according to the parameters she was muttering telepathically about while she investigated the selection.

More fields of study! You know, Tirion is inventing a field of study every day! Yesterday the botanists announced splitting into the study of how to create new things from selective breeding of flowers, and the study of extant flowers, and the study of the underlying biological structure of flowers. And today wizardry. Tomorrow I suppose the mathematicians will announce there's even more to math, probably.

I hope they're having fun with that.

We don't yet have a field for studying the expansion of fields of study in Tirion but I'm sure we will soon.

Bella laughs.

Yeah, a little much. Plus I'm running out of wool and that's by far the best demonstration spell I have.

We can go find some sheep next. Do you have to do anything special to the wool or can we just cut it off the sheep with that delightful knife of yours?

Wool doesn't have to be treated in any way, I think fresh off the sheep works fine!

I know someone who keeps sheep and is conveniently near Mahtan's, do you mind being my eyes back in that direction?

Rúmil's friend who keeps sheep lives a comfortable walk out of town, and is happy to let them shear a sheep and very curious about Bella and wizardry and why it'd require wool specifically.

Bella has lots of wool now and is happy to show him! Behold how when she casts her spell the pinch of wool she's using ceases to exist. (Six seconds of piccolo music.) This spell can also be done with wax but she finds wool less vaguely gross to keep in her component pouch. If she remembers high school wizardry correctly it is those things because they are symbolically the sort of thing that one might put in one's ear, for either insulation from noise or for whatever it is that earwax is supposed to do.

Hmmm. Would anything work if it was of that type? If there was a society that used cork for ear-plugs? How about substances that are related to wool but not derived from sheep, have people experimented with that?

People have definitely not experimented with that! It's a problem! But those are good ideas now that she can break this trend.

Does she want to stay for lunch and talk about wool and wool-equivalents and her world?

Sure, why not. But fair warning, her world's horrifying.

You can see out of sheep eyes?