Thellim has been trying to remember printing-press-invention tropes. It's appeared in multiple Tech Uplift stories, with helpful illustrations, but you need inks and metals with particular properties to do it right. Some stories did cover making those too, but she's worried about finding acceptable plants and identifying acceptable metals. And is she supposed to be inventing better paper first? Thellim thinks she knows more about metallurgy than this, because Steel is such a classic Tech Uplift trope, but the higher tech tiers for steel aren't easy if a society already has the lower ones.
:Better! And probably up for it!: Thellim sends back after Melody's touch. :Mindspeech still hurts a little but nothing I can't push through, so long as pushing through isn't making things much worse.:
