It will be rather like prying open oysters in the hope of pearls, then.

[ or, you know, as far as she's heard, having never done it. she has little concept of the work that had been done for even the comparatively short strand of them around her neck.

she furrows her brow in frustration of a sudden and tsks. ]

Merde. I did not bring any of my writing supplies. Think you the library will have paper and ink with which I might transcribe?