"Well, you don't have songs about magic."

"Yeah we do just not real magic."

"Real magic is better."

"I wanna do magic. Is magic yellow?"

"Magic doesn't have a caste."

"...well, would it be yellow, if it did?"

"...Magic has a lot of different ways of being used. Some of them would be yellow, I think."

"Like what?"

"Magic hurts to use, and it has mental side-effects, so most people want to use as little magic as they can for what they want to do. Sometimes that means a lot of detail work."

"It hurts?" frowns Alaior.

"Yes. That's why it's me who does most of the magic and not Illia, because I don't mind pain."

"...but pain hurts."

"Yes."

"That's bad."

"Usually! But I like it okay."

"Why?"

"...Because I magicked myself that way. But that's not something everyone can do."

"Why not?"

"Because it invites a lot of the side effect, and the side effect is bad."

"What is it?"

"It--changes how you think."

"How?"

"That's complicated and not something I'm sure I'm going to explain to anyone I haven't already decided for sure to teach magic to."

"Aww."

"Sorry."