Annie is an awfully flattering person to have in magical love with you, if that thing is going to happen.

She is! Although she is blind and therefore short on adoring gazes, she is definitely looking sort of daydreamy and everything.

This is going to be easier than she had been afraid of.

"How far is your house from here?"

"Less than a mile."

"Okay, I can probably walk that since it's not icy."

"How d'you normally get around?"

"Tricycle. Can't balance a two-wheeler."

"Huh. Trikes aren't widely available for adults here but I'm sure Emily can figure something out."

"They're not standard for adults at home either but I found one eventually. Had to do a lot of the maintenance myself though because the nearby bike shop didn't know what to do with it."

"I have magnetism powers. I'm quite sure we can work something out."

"Cool."

"Tell me how the trike was built compared to a normal bicycle?"

"Two back wheels. I could probably do the writing-drawing thing if you want a diagram of it?"

"That would probably be helpful. I mean more like--were the wheels all standard bicycle size, was the chain arrangement any different..."

"I don't know much about how two-wheelers are put together so comparing's hard. The wheels were all the same size though."

"Fair 'nuff. You can draw a diagram when we get home."

"Will do."

"How exactly does that work, I wonder...if I carve text into every square centimeter of a statue will you see the statue as a words-shaped lattice of the material the statue's made of?"

"Probably? Although I don't think it'd let me see through the statue."

"Hmm, right, so you would only be able to see one side of a lattice...this whole thing seems very weird, I might want to play with it later. Oh, probably when you're out of the house, I think I'd want to experiment some with how music with lyrics interacted with it."

"I'm not sure it's the lyrics," Annie mentions. "It's only going to be the lyrics if the important thing is whether I can hear it."

"Right, so you should give me the language thing and the sense thing and I should do experiments with what parts of music that happens to contain lyrics I can hear."

"Sure."

"Ooh, hey, you know what else you could do for money, I bet there's lots of people who'd be interested in trading their ability to distinguish faces for becoming a magical omniglot, especially people who are already faceblind, you could charge to put that one on people."