"Fair enough," he says, and follows Terry where he leads.

Here are his neatly written in surprisingly small handwriting, well-organized, and rather thorough given how he's only had Change for half a day, notes!

Sadde reads it all!

"It's strange that there are these complexity limitations," he muses.

"There are many factors that affect them, like personal affinity with the card, magical potential, or magic type."

"I bet you're better at Change. You have the personality for it."

"Demonstrably I can use it to turn into a girl." Pause. "More thoroughly than I can on my own."

"Oh yeah, you said you already knew some magic. Huh."

"That implies more... conscious knowledge than I have. I don't, like, know any spells or whatever it is that sorcerers use..."

"I don't get the impression that even 'proper' sorcerers are super formal about it. Magic doesn't feel at all like engineering. Maybe I get to invent thaumaturgy."

"You keep saying these things."

"Sorcerers have rituals and spell structures," Cerberus calls, trying to prevent this from becoming another kissingfest.

This successfully distracts Terry, at least. He grabs a second notebook back and readies a pencil. "Ooh, please elaborate."

"...I don't know more than that. I know Clow used rituals, he made me and the cards with one, and there were phrases."

"...Do you know any sorcerers I could talk to? Maybe pay them for lessons?"

"...I knew some thirty years ago."

"Thirty years is a long time so I won't get my hopes up but I kinda do want to try and track some of them down. More information is better, generally speaking."

"I was in Osaka, then."

"...Phones can do international calls? I bet not a one of them has a phone number, do they? When you start looking up their family name in the hopes of finding a relative it's starting to be a bit of a stretch."

"I didn't ask them their phone numbers thirty years ago. I didn't actually meet them, I just was around them. In the book."

"You lead a strange life."

"Yeah, sure sounds it. I get the impression you were sort of... Asleep until recently? Say, how often do you think the cards will show themselves? There's only fifty-two. Are we looking at a couple months of frantically running around, or more like a year of slightly less frantically running around?"

Shrug. "I think more like a year. And yes, I was. It was... accidental."

"What was accidental? Going to sleep or waking up because of the catastrophe thing?"

"Going to sleep..."

"Wait, catastrophe?"