"I love you."

"I love you too."

"You're really pretty in that."

"Oh good." Twirl.

"We should...hm, I was going to say we should go ice skating next winter, it'd be too ironic not to, but the rink I'm used to generally has music playing."

"It might turn out to be only music with lyrics? Or maybe if we ask really nicely they'll let us go after hours or something."

"The music usually has lyrics. It would probably be easier to find somewhere else."

Nod. "This is a really inconvenient weakness. It'd be so easy for random people to innocently run into and so easy to exploit. Maybe I can sorcer it away."

"Yeah, and there's a lot of music in public places, we're lucky we didn't run into any today."

"Is it really common? I think there's music on in like bookstores at home but not usually clothes stores."

"It's really common," she confirms.

"...oh. Yeah I should get on sorcery sooner than later. Unless your dad can fix it and I feel like he might have mentioned."

"I really doubt my dad could fix it."

"Not his specialty?"

"He's not really a theorist and your artifacts are unprecedented."

Nod. "The warmth thing at least seems to respond to conventional temperature-affecting stuff."

"Yeah, it would be really inconvenient if it didn't."

"How long do you suppose it'll take me to know enough to make a final sorcery-related decision and start doing sorcery?"

"I'm not sure. What exactly do you feel the need to know?"

"How long is it going to suck and do most people have a hard time recovering from that, what's the learning curve going to be like, is there like minimum training to be safe to exist or can I pace it however I want, that sort of thing."

"Oh, you could probably ask Dad about all that stuff if you don't mind him saying something casually disturbing."

"...like what?"

"When my dad was a teenager a villain killed his parents, abducted him, and, with some other similarly-treated kids, turned him into a sorcerer without asking and proceeded to teach him whether he liked it or not and hurt him if he didn't do well enough."

Hug.

"He escaped and went after him and Mom was also after him for some tangentially related stuff he did and that's how they met and he's pretty much okay now but if you ask him questions about what's it like to be a new sorcerer the context in which he was a new sorcerer isn't going to be completely separable."