The grid was useful for maintaining symmetry, but the clock method probably would have worked better. The grey fugegochi runs toward the soggy, lots of puddling ink and ragged absorption patterns. Probably would have been better to go with a super fine liner and low pressure. Grey alcohol marker over the top softened the worst of it.
Stairs were all well and good with their steady, measured incline and the fact they often came with a proper house built around them. But ladders seemed like an attempt at testing the limits of gravity and other scientific matters Mildred did not quite understand and therefore had no desire to provoke without good reason.
Quenby Olson, Miss Percy’s Travel Guide (to Welsh Moors and Feral Dragons)