I accumulated a lot of foreign language books and I was going to run to the university while he had those to distract him and get an interplanar studies professor to figure something out. There's supposed to be ways to keep extraplanars from showing up in the prime material plane. I wound up just giving him the book and packing instead since he didn't, like, disintegrate on contact with the place.

Good call. 

Thanks.

You rescued him too, you know. 

A little less dramatically. I did not planeshift into his lap and announce I was there to rescue him.

Don't think that's the bit that matters. 

I know. It was very dramatic though.

My father has quite the theatrical sense when he wants to. 

I was pretty shellshocked for a bit. Didn't remember I'd left the oven on until I was already safely out.

Is that a problem?

Not especially.

Okay. I don't have much of a technological reference point for Materia. 

Materia doesn't have technology, it has magic, but it has magic to a high level of convenience and standard of living. My muffins were certainly ruined but my apartment building will not have burned down.

Oh, good. 

Their charge is impatiently wiggling. 

You can probably have this done in stages if you can't stand to sit through it all at once, Bella tells Fëanáro.

Yep! Necklace'll let you start up where you left off. 

But then you'll have to do the deciding-to-sit-still-for-some-spell-bits part several times.

I want magic that doesn't use mana. And he is a pretty good singer.

I will have you know I am the best in the galaxy, Macalaure says, all due to the extraordinary difficulty of keeping your attention. We can do the rest later. 

The whole galaxy? How did you check?

We've started exporting and several reviewers have said so! I decided to assume they know because it soothes my ego. 

Aha. Congratulations!

Thank you! I have a species advantage, as far as the galaxy comparison goes. We're also older than lots of the galaxy's peoples, it's rather odd. 

The entire species or the individuals? In my new home it seems sapients have very long unrecorded history periods.

Individuals. Gives us an edge in talent-related endeavors that require lots of practice to get mastery at. We're trying to spread that edge as fast as we can, of course. 

Good.