Aaron shrugged and gave the doctor an incredulous look. "Well paper's not hard. Neither is ink." He grinned as he didn't see his meaning dawning too quickly. "Parchment is made from animal skins, which we have." There was no missing the aroma that followed Bazzer and his cart. "But even if we didn't want to put all of the work in to cute parchment, there's always the papyrus notion. All we need to make that is some kind of reed plant that remains fiberous when it rots." He demonstrated laying out the reeds in a grid. "Lay it all out on a rock, lay another rock down on top and leave it for a bit. Sure, it's not the easiest thing to write on but it beats chiseling into tablets." He chuckled. "It was actually a pretty environmentally sound form of making paper. Beat the heck out of chewing up trees. And then the Chinese were making lamp black ink since, well, a thousand years before Christ. That's just charcoal and wine, or even water in some cases." It was amazing, the things you picked up when you were learning the sciences.