        She set it on her dresser.  The calamus was undamaged, so it would make a useful quill after she trimmed the end.  There was no sense in letting it go to waste.  She could even give it to Twilight.  Old mare’s tales said that alicorn feathers gave magical properties to writing.  That was just what they needed, some sort of magical understanding of the books that Lyra had gotten from the creature.