"Please don't try to bypass the safety enchantment; I could keep you from dying but it probably wouldn't be fun for either of us."

"...I wasn't all that tempted to try to bypass the safety enchantment before you said that, but now I'm sort of curious how rescuing me would differ in principle from just... having flown me a little farther out and then coming back..."

"Because it's the same part of the enchantment that keeps our speed from making the city extremely windy and getting you back inside would be tricky. And meanwhile extreme wind. I mentioned it because trying to bypass the enchantment is a thing people do and I wouldn't be surprised if you succeeded."

"Warning me off things like that is probably a good principle and I encourage it but I'm also totally thinking about how to bypass the safety enchantment now."

"Sure, just test your ideas with, like, a rock or something that I won't feel obligated to rescue."

"Overall I think it would be wiser for me to leave those experiments until I'm capable of flying unassisted."

"If Atennesi Cohen has to rescue you he's going to make a face at you."

"...I'm sure he will, but is there something I'm missing? The point of leaving it until I'm capable of flying unassisted is so that no one will have to rescue me."

"If it takes you too long to figure out how to get back in then he will rescue you anyway."

"Well, fair enough."

"If you got outside the enchantment somehow and weren't a mage student he would come rescue you immediately."

"Very reasonably!"

"It is convenient for a wide variety of reasons that Atennesi Cohen is a reasonable person."

"Yes."

Odette picks up a rock and starts bouncing it off the barrier, aiming to have it smack back into her hand and only missing a couple of times.

"See, this is just tempting me to play with the safety enchantment. I should not start playing with the safety enchantment."

Odette drops the rock. "I should probably be less of an active temptation."

"Thank you."

...

Illusion bunny nibbling on the rock.

Milan bursts into helpless giggles.

Yeah, she can't keep a straight face either.

"How long is it going to take before I can do adorable illusions?"

"Maybe a few years, maybe not."

"A few years sounds like much too long."

"I don't really know how to calibrate for you; I grew up doing tiny magics my whole life and you have extra brain."