He nods. "If I were to make a guess, it will probably not hold your thanergy as well as bone. But it will hold it better than ordinary paper. And if it does not work at all, perhaps the characters could be incorporated into your own work somehow."

A quick grin follows -- perhaps not as radiant as his usual grins, but he is doing his best.

"But we could sit and theorize all day and still be wrong! Would you like to try activating it to find out for certain?"