"Yes...I am worried that attempting to gain permission for such an endeavor would stand a chance of harming our eventual attempt to popularize your medical knowledge should any surgeons involved object strongly enough."

"Sounds like we should limit what surgeons are involved according to which ones will object most, I guess? Do you know any, or know anyone who knows any?"

"My family has a doctor who I believe performs some surgeries but I don't know him well enough to say whether he'd be amenable... I suppose my father might be able to recommend someone though if we go that route I'd prefer we did so in secret, which I suppose might be acceptable."

"It seems fine for the testing step, at least."

"Agreed - I shall write a letter this evening so it can be sent to my parents tommorow morning."

"Can I borrow a book to read while you're doing that?"

"Of course - the library's organization is atrocious but you are welcome to read anything in it."

"Is there anything you'd recommend?"

"What manner of reading material do you typically enjoy?"

"Novels, ones that have been popular for a few generations so there's underlying quality and not just faddishness there, but in this circumstance I might want nonfiction."

"Of any particular subject or something general?"

"Whatever I seem to know the least or the most misleading things about, maybe."

"I... could recommend a book on courting, though I imagine you might not want to read that and I don't actually expect it to be especially helpful, possibly the opposite. Perhaps something about social structures - assuming you language power extend to Arabic there's a reasonably accurate book critiquing English society that I think only ended up in my grandfather's library because someone mistranslated the country it was about as France."

"I don't think a book about courting would be the most useful to frontload. At this point I would be pretty surprised if there were any languages I couldn't read."

Lucette can direct Annie to 'Of those to the North who fail to listen', which is shelved next to a book on frog anatomy.

Wow, that is an impressive classification system.

Annie will park in the library. Even if Lucette goes somewhere else, as long as she's not too far to sense.

Lucette can write her letter in the library while Annie reads.

What's in this book, then.

A lot of complaints about how the English treat commoners - and in particular of the fact that their legal system nearly ignores crimes committed by nobility against commoners. In particular, the author objects to the presence of cultural traditions of empowered commoners robbing, harassing, and sometimes killing commoners during their annual courting season. The few nobles who are caught at this are remanded to a jail which lacks locks on half the cells and a warden who has received quite an extensive list of expensive presents which he was all too eager to brag to the author of the book about.

The author also feels that the nobles are derelict in their duties of defending against most wild demons, but will admit that their campaigns have killed more than most countries have managed, both in terms of demons and the empowered.

Also, they refuse to do arranged marriages for their empowered, even when the parents involved are honorable. The author objects to this and thinks the young English men spend far too much time thinking of the, ahem, physical aspects of matrimony, which should rightly be ignored until after marriage. 

Wow. She hates it. (How is arranged marriage supposed to help with Englishmen thinking too much of the physical aspects of matrimony, anyway.)

The idea is that their fathers will prioritize more sensible things in making the match.

Uh-huh.

She'll go to bed whenever Lucette does whether she's finished the book or not.

The response to Lucette's letter comes later the next day - a surgeon friend of her father's has a patient willing to try just about anything that might help with an upcoming amputation.

Does the letter say why the amputation is occurring?

The man was bitten on the arm by a dog and the wound became infected.