"I shall need a very strong binding, and an especially thick cover with metal plating in it. The inside, if you bring me some paper I can sketch out some examples of the kinds of diagrams I will need, and we can work out how many pages it will actually be. The cover and pages have to fall within certain ranges for the whole tome to work." Technically the art of crafting a Scholar's tome isn't really magic itself, but this world has different rules and perhaps it would qualify.

"I know it is a lot, but I hope the promise of another healer for the community explains why it is so important." This has a hopeful smile in her voice, because oh, she misses healing so badly. Not of course, that she wants anyone to need it, but oh. It is a passion, not just a job.