"Ludo is ... the herald of death, right?" Cam still hadn't gotten all the Old Gods straight in their mind. Once they'd decided to go to the Voice for their needs, it hadn't seemed as important. Really, they ought to try harder -- there were only six of them. Or were they missing one?
"Don't worry about it." Cam waved away Samuel's apology. But their eyes widened as Sam spoke of the books, and especially when he showed them that page of neat, regular letters marching in rows. "Oh, wow. That's amazing! That definitely takes some dedication and hard work." They glanced around at the piles of books in the shop, imagining how many words and letters might be in each one -- and what it would take to write them all by hand. "That's so cool. Oh -- a printing press is a machine that, well, prints books. It dips metal letters in ink, then stamps them down on a page. You can use it to create a lot of copies of a book without having to write them all by hand."
"Don't worry about it." Cam waved away Samuel's apology. But their eyes widened as Sam spoke of the books, and especially when he showed them that page of neat, regular letters marching in rows. "Oh, wow. That's amazing! That definitely takes some dedication and hard work." They glanced around at the piles of books in the shop, imagining how many words and letters might be in each one -- and what it would take to write them all by hand. "That's so cool. Oh -- a printing press is a machine that, well, prints books. It dips metal letters in ink, then stamps them down on a page. You can use it to create a lot of copies of a book without having to write them all by hand."
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