The D’ni pens I found in J’Taeri are frustrating to use. I was never good with regular fountain pens, and these ones are quite elaborate. When I was young, I was left handed, but this made my writing somewhat messy and easily smudged. My teachers forced me to learn to write with my right hand, which made me very upset. Why learn to write all over again when I can do it well enough already?

I’m glad now though, writing with fountain pens and an ink-pot would be absolutely impossible with my left hand. I would have to wait for each character to dry! Imagine filling a Descriptive Book with the complex characters of the gahrohevtee with that sort of speed!