Keltham comes from a world whose fantasy novels developed in such fashion as to not include any tropes under which writing a contract with a devil's ichor would have supernatural effects.  Contracts are shadows of the one irreplaceable Algorithm and breaking them might get powerful supernatural beings angry at you for peeing on the Algorithm, but this would be totally unrelated to the ink in which those contracts were written.  Keltham is staring at this trying to figure out whether she is an artificial organism designed in such fashion that her anatomy just happens to include better pens than could otherwise be supplied on short notice to a Government negotiation room in a secure facility.

Keltham comes from a world whose fantasy novels developed in such fashion as to not include any tropes under which writing a contract with a devil's ichor would have supernatural effects.  Contracts are shadows of the one irreplaceable Algorithm and breaking them might get powerful supernatural beings angry at you for peeing on the Algorithm, but this would be totally unrelated to the ink in which those contracts were written.  History has been screened off, and the new historical fiction hasn't particularly guessed that people were using feathers as pens at one point - that's not a trope either.

Keltham is staring at this trying to figure out whether she is an artificial organism designed in such fashion that her anatomy just happens to include better pens than could otherwise be supplied on short notice to a Government negotiation room in a secure facility.

Keltham comes from a world whose fantasy novels developed in such fashion as to not include any tropes under which writing a contract with a devil's ichor would have supernatural effects.  Contracts are shadows of the one irreplaceable Algorithm and breaking them might get powerful supernatural beings angry at you for peeing on the Algorithm, but this would be totally unrelated to the ink in which those contracts were written.  History has been screened off, and the best-guess shared-historical-world fiction that developed afterwards, doesn't include the best-guess that people used to use feathers as pens - that's not a trope either.

Keltham is staring at this trying to figure out whether she is an artificial organism designed in such fashion that her anatomy just happens to include better pens than could otherwise be supplied on short notice to a Government negotiation room in a secure facility.

Keltham comes from a world whose fantasy novels developed in such fashion as to not include any tropes under which writing a contract with a devil's ichor would have supernatural effects.  Contracts are shadows of the one irreplaceable Algorithm and breaking them might get powerful supernatural beings angry at you for peeing on the Algorithm, but this would be totally unrelated to the ink in which those contracts were written.  History has been screened off, and the best-guess shared-false-historical-world fiction that developed afterwards, doesn't include the best-guess that people used to use feathers as pens - that's not a trope either.

Keltham is staring at this trying to figure out whether she is an artificial organism designed in such fashion that her anatomy just happens to include better pens than could otherwise be supplied on short notice to a Government negotiation room in a secure facility.

Keltham comes from a world whose fantasy novels developed in such fashion as to not include any tropes under which writing a contract with a devil's ichor would have supernatural effects.  Contracts are shadows of the one irreplaceable Algorithm and breaking them might get powerful supernatural beings angry at you for peeing on the Algorithm, but this would be totally unrelated to the ink in which those contracts were written.  History has been screened off, and the best-guess shared-false-historical-world fiction that developed afterwards, doesn't include the best-guess that people used to use feathers as pens - that's not a trope either.

Keltham is staring at this trying to figure out whether she is an artificial organism designed in such fashion that her anatomy just happens to include better pens than could otherwise be supplied on short notice to a Government negotiation in a secure facility.