"Yes? Sort of. It's a bit - translated," he says. "The original version is much easier for me to figure out, but not completely automatic."

Glass peers closely at his ingot power. "Thank you very much! I hate it when I can't look at magical things - once I ruined a whole set of lenses when I panicked and put them on in the Cave of Unpleasant Surprises and I had to make new ones. I'd probably have kept trying to squint very carefully at all the overbright magic till I'd had to wish myself unblind at least five times without this lens set."

Glass inspects Kanim next. "I think thaaaat's the witchwell, thaaaaat's sorcery..." She looks at her marble. "Wow, I have so much to do."

"I think that's a Bell catchphrase by now," says Lazarus.

"Is it? Well, of course it is," laughs Glass. "This is the best, best day." She turns to Kanim. "Say, have you seen Tony? Ours. Iron."

"She's with her alts," says Kanim delicately, smiling faintly. "Introducing herself."

"Aha," says Lazarus.

"Having fun, I hope."

"Oh yes. Last I checked. You know me, I'm no fun, I found it necessary to escape before I got a lethal dosage."

"I'm surprised you haven't hit on any of my alts, Kanim, I'm the only gay one."

"I would not know at all where to start! There are twelve!"

"Amariah," Lazarus suggests.

"Why's that?"

"Cam and Amariah are the adventurous sorts, and Cam is a non-girl and I don't know how you feel about those."

"Mostly not so inclined, but apparently I can make exceptions for non-girls who contain Tony's personality, because Tony is awesome."

"Well, Amariah's a girl," laughs Glass, "and straight, and she's over there."

"Noted," says Kanim. "But I am still coming down from my dose of fun. I'm not as young as I used to be."

Lazarus giggles.