The Systems Challenge

Elmo wasn't sure what turn events had taken for him to have been selected for the task of copying Blot's cover. Though, when asked for paper and a pencil, Blot traced something on the ground with one of his tassels and then placed both of his ribbon bookmarks on either side of where he'd been tracing. Making a glowing circle appear on the ground.

Then when the glow of the circle disappeared, a stack of paper appeared on the ground with a jar of ink and a quill.

"I'm not sure what a 'pencil' is, but I assume it's used to write with, so this should work, right?" Blot asked, the innocence he exuded merely making Elmo feel even more annoyed with him. As even though he knew this wasn't the case, it just felt to Elmo like Blot was doing that on purpose.

While others talked among themselves, Elmo didn't say anything. He knew what he'd need to do, though he didn't plan ono doing anything more than copy it before he slept for the night, which was to start copying what he could make out on Blot's cover.

Although, as he thought about it, it would make it easier if Blot didn't move during the process. Which would likely only occur if Elmo actually said something to him. Which also was another thing that Elmo wasn't happy about.

"Uh, Blot?" Elmo asked, as he carefully picked up the paper, jar of ink, and quill. "Would you mind if I copied down what your cover says?"

Blot turned to look at Elmo and he suddenly had a feeling that Blot was going to refuse. Kindly refuse, but a refusal nonetheless.

"Sure, but where would you like be to be?" Blot asked, looking around. "I mean, I doubt you can see my cover very well if I'm down here while you're up there."

Elmo blinked. He hadn't really thought about that. He'd just figured that he'd bend over to get a closer look at the cover as he needed to, though as he thought about it, it probably would take a little longer than it would if Blot stood on a table or something.