She'll go buy a wax tablet off the chandler.

Does she just want plain wax or should she do some sort of layered thing to make writing appear in a different color than the surface?

"...layers sound cool, thanks."

It'll cost extra but still is well below the amount Laithan paid her.

Is it ready soon enough to take home the same day?

Yep, he can go and make it right now if she'd like.

Yes please.

It will still take an hour to cool but then she can have her writing tablet.

She and Eefa can go circulate in the market a bit more while the tablet hardens and then come back for it.

Eefa stares meaningfully at the canned food in case that will get her some.

It will absolutely not! That shit is older than Pelape's grandparents!

Its valuable, small, and also unspoilable food. But she is not going to use words to ask since why would that work.

In this case it certainly would not!

Anyway, back for the tablet and then back to Elysium.

Eefa accompanies her silently.

The tablet is useful for reading lessons as well as other things.

"Can you make pictures?" Eefa asks after she's completed another reading lesson.

"I'm not a very good artist, but maybe, what do you want to see pictures of?"

Shrug.

Well, she can do shapes. Triangle, circle, square, and their names.

"Can you make a tree?"

She can make a sketchy tree outline. T-R-E-E.

"On a hill?"

Sure, a curve under the bottom of the trunk.

"Can I be under the tree?"

"...I can try." Little barely more than a stick figure child sitting under the tree with a fluff of hair.