>>56656209He struggles a lot initially due to how weird his paws feel, now that his digits are longer and slimmer and are supposed to cuel around this weird stick.
Eventually he endures the discomfort and starts writing his first letter, your words of encouragement a boost to his confidence, lacking due to how uneven and crooked his first words look.
After a while he's able to write most letters of the alphabet very slowly, but it's still progress. He starts to connect the spoken word with these weird combinations of glyphs you keep teaching him, and it's not long before the cave is covered with words, etched onto them as to not forget their meaning. There's only one word that he needs not to write, being it's the word that means the most for him, the one he's most accustomed to scribbling down.
(You)r name. 