"The university has a guy who touched an artifact that lets him identify other artifacts without having to touch them. He needs twenty hours of sleep a day so the university pretty much has to look after him, but people can bring their artifacts for identification."

"That sounds like it sucks for him."

"Yeah, that's why there's only one of him."

"I wonder how they find people to take that job."

"I have no idea how he came by it."

"Under the circumstances, I suppose it'll have to stay a mystery."

"Yep."

"Oh well, not that big a deal."

"Yeah. He'll probably go through the pile of artifacts that hit me, in a few weeks they'll be able to conclude that I might be alive."

"...That'll be good for your parents."

"Yeah."

"You know what would be really nice would be a stable way to go back and forth between the two."

"That'd be great. Is that the sort of thing local magic can do?"

"It hasn't so far but I wouldn't necessarily rule it out."

"Any other known things that just - don't?"

"Things that are theoretically intractable? Not as far as I know."

"Can you bring back the dead?" wonders Annie.

"No one's been able to do it with sorcery that anyone knows of, but while sorcery has no known theoretical limits it has a lot of practical limits in terms of the available knowledge. There was one artifact that did it, that I know of, but the guy who had it was murdered over it--ironic, I know--and no one knows what happened to it after that. And it's really, really rare as a magical girl spell."

"Well now I want it."

"I think it's profoundly optimistic to think you'd get it for your second spell but I bet you'll get there."

"I will make sure to accomplish things."

"Accomplishing things is great!"

If Edie would kiss her Annie is positive that would count! She does not mention this. Maybe there are other upcoming opportunities. "How big an accomplishment does it have to be?"

"Depends on the person."

"What's the range?"