One rule of magic says:
A magic user’s choice of writing instrument really doesn’t say much about them. Magic is difficult and fickle work, so anything that puts words on paper will do. There is one exception, however, and the reader is strongly advised to take caution; for should they ever observe someone using a fountain pen to take down notes during any performance of magic, an immediate retreat must be performed, since a hand that inks calmly under a storm of spells is truly to be feared.
and no matter how lost i was, how afraid and small and broken the world had left me; the books of my past and future welcomed me in ancient halls as their child, and taught me about storms and stars and life’s paths as their student, and made my fingerstips into quills so that ink could lace my veins for the paper that waited for me.
their words and their worlds have always been, and will always be, my home.
and when i leave that home one day, it will be because i have been called: for my own world, and all its stories and syllables, whisper for me and my ink to bring it to life.
