"I've already forgotten it!"

"If I gave her a nametag would that help?"

"I forget everything irrelevant. If the rich girl wants me to remember her name, she should do something historically significant or contribute to science, like Areelu Vorlesh or Aroden."

"Does being named the same thing as someone whose name you remember help? The quintessence person."

"Why would that make her less irrelevant?"

"It'd just mean you already know the name."

Nenio looks puzzled, as though she has no idea how that could possibly be relevant.

"...Sharing a name with someone who made contributions to science isn't the same thing as making contributions to science," she tries.

"Understood, I just thought it was worth a try. Sorry, Camellia, I think she's impaired."

Camellia still looks extremely annoyed, but takes a deep breath and let's some of the tension go.

"I suppose if they really can't help it there's no point in being annoyed at them for it, but I am not spending however long it takes to pick up making scrolls being called rich girl."

"If you want me to call you something else, you could try having a more obvious character trait for me to refer to you by instead!"

Camellia's brow twitches, but she heroically remains silent.

"Maybe we can learn scrolls from somebody else, I don't think it's a very rare skill."

"That's true. Either it'll just be a temporary annoyance, or it won't and it's because science girl over here is a good enough teacher that it's worth it."

"Ooh, what an interesting idea. Maybe I should introduce myself as that!"

Her control group now reluctantly on board, Nenio can get out her scroll supplies and start showing them how to put a spell to paper.

"It usually takes about an hour for even an expert to make a scroll properly, and you should be prepared for it to take them longer even before they get good enough not to mess up, but basic scrolls don't require any great talent. You just have to use ink to make the same support structure for hanging spells!"

Nenio looks at them as though expecting to see sudden dawning comprehension, but when it fails to materialize she instead gets to showing the relationship between the diagrams in a spellbook and the resulting three-dimensional spell structure, and how you can then transfer that structure to "hook" onto a scroll rather than your soul.

"You should start with detect magic, since that one is pretty easy to see if you did it right and then you can watch me hang a spell to get a better intuition for it; since that's not one of the spells you know, I can cast it onto the scroll for you once you finish the anchor, and then you can just peel it off to cast it!"

The information from read magic does seem to help, especially with making sense of the work in progress, but it doesn't obviate the teaching like it does for identifying spells; about ten minutes after she first cast the spell, the effect wears off, but there doesn't seem to be anything preventing her from just doing it again.

She casts it a few times, taking notes in abstruse shapes embossed in scraps of paper she conjures up for the purpose. "Is the ink essential qua ink?"

"Usually yes; paper isn't typically magically active enough to make an anchor even if you put it into the proper shapes, though you might be able to save some time later if you noted where to draw it ahead of time and then filled it in when you had access. It doesn't have to be this kind in specific if that's what you're asking. I know of a dozen kinds of ink that work varying well for making scrolls and you can even use spellsilver if you really want - that was an expensive experiment."

"It sounds it." Paint paint. Her hands are quite steady.

With Nenio's assistance, they can both make good time on scribing their scrolls; for all her problems with pedagogy, Nenio seems genuinely quite talented at the job and can give the reason for every step at whatever level of detail is desired. It's still not the easiest task in the world, but a little under an hour and a half later Kybele is the owner of a scroll of detect magic. Camellia's is lagging a bit behind, but still seems likely to finish successfully.

Kickass. And now she can read-magic her own scroll and take more notes on it so she can get it done more smoothly next time.

It is happy to cooperate with this endeavor, at least insofar as inanimate objects can be happy. It's probably not something she can totally automate any time soon, but if she can practice making the trenches for the ink on paper precisely enough - and possibly scratch a few scrolls working out the kinks, depending -  she could probably save quite a bit of time making ink channels for all the stable parts and get through the job much faster. The bits you have to edit on the fly seem less amenable and she'd still need to hook the spell, but they're not the majority of the work. It's also a bit less obvious than it could be, but if she also looks at Nenio's spellbook pages for detect and read magic she'll see a lot of similarities. If for some reason she wanted to make a scroll of her own spell, she'd likely have an easier time figuring it out.

She will whip up an appropriate length of paper and start experimentally embossing for a read-magic scroll, narrating what she's doing in case this inspires Nenio to correct her.

Nenio is perfectly happy to let her make her own mistakes; indeed, she gets steadily more enthusiastic watching Kybele as she continues her work. Only once she finishes and it fails to hang properly does she step into explain the problem, at which point she erases the offending bits so that Kybele doesn't need to redo the entire thing.

"You've got quite good instincts for it! People who don't do wizardry don't tend to pick up scroll development nearly this quickly."

As if to underline Nenio's point, Camellia curses under her breath as she has to redo another line on her second copy of the detect magic scroll.

Ky redoes the parts she got wrong, adjusts her notes to account for the error. "Thanks!"

If Kybele is feeling like she has the hang of it, the next thing to do is to use the scrolls to cast a spell. Some people tend to think of this as being a different thing from making scrolls but Nenio thinks that's a a silly distinction since it's pretty much just the same thing as hanging the spell but in reverse. They should both be pretty easy to use, since they're both spells you can cast with song sorcery; read magic might be a bit easier since she can cast it herself, but there's also less benefit to having it up for the same reason.