[The voice that rings out over the journal is a bit louder than is strictly necessary, but the reason for that becomes apparent quite quickly.]

How loud do you have to speak? Will it pick it up? I can't imagine such a battered, ugly-looking mass produced Magic Tool would work very well. Who makes these things, anyway? Hello? Hello? Oh, it's writing what I say? Will it get my name right if I say it? Hello, this is Titus Alexius [He says it very slowly, as if the journal is a particularly dim child.] Oh, it did! Maybe it uses a combination of Sound Magic and Space-Time Magic?

[There's a sound of the journal being picked up and turned over. He's going to figure this thing out. Theoretically, he should be able to make one himself. Theoretically. Space-Time Magic isn't something that many people have mastered. Yunan and Kou's Magi can use it, as can one of the Djinn employed by one of Kou's princes, but it's not something that's taught to students of magic and not something Lady Scheherazade made much use of. Surely someone out there can tell him who made these things.]