Ah, so that's where the gap in knowledge is. Well, Angeal doesn't mind it - that's just liable to happen and he doesn't know what this guy's messed up life had done for his history lessons. Hell, it might not even be that. Quills just might not have been a thing in his world.

All this transdimensional shit is wild.

"It's when you take a particular sort of feather - usually one of the longer ones - and fashion its nub in a ways so that you can dip it into ink," he explains. "Then you use it to write like that. Used before pencils and pens and all that were more common."