"as for the letter , if she sent pearl for the ink , the girl would only report the tidbit to hawke . gemma would have to retrieve it herself . **** the ink was in one of the desk drawers . she remembered seeing her father putting the bottle in there after refilling his own inkwell long ago . one of the drawers on the left , she was almost certain . rummaging through the drawers felt somewhat wrong , but gemma had to have the _ ..." What is the word in the blank space (_)? The answer is
ink