[Carlisle just kind of watches the paper sadly as Kate pushes it his way, but he does comply in the end. He grabs one of the brushes lying nearby rathern than his usual pen, and after dipping it into the ink, starts with a small circle.]

I started with mending, just to see if she could even activate the glyphs. She asked me once [he fills in that circle with a symbol that looks a bit like a Y] if I could teach her magic, and while I still don't know if some magic is intrinsic to my world or not, I thought, "Ah, it can't hurt to try, now can it?"

[More circles, and a triangle in the circles. Maybe it's the alcohol or maybe it's his unsteady hands, but boy, is he bad at drawing circles.]

And it works, and that's just great. I've managed to teach someone something. But then she starts going on about some other language she can write in and how those letters have meaning. And before I know it, she's inscribed them in the glyph [probably between the outer and inner circle, if the way he taps the end of the brush there is an indication] and it works. Not exactly the way she wanted, but the fact that it got even close when she's got next to no experience with glyphcrafting is astounding.

[There's venom in that last word. He grips the brush between his hands and snaps it with a little effort, dropping the pieces onto his newly-made glyph.]