"I wonder why. Your name's relatively normal."

"Yeah, my mom's family is pretty modern that way, her name's Maria."

"The funny names are an old-fashioned thing, not just a magical person thing?"

"They're a 'magical people are old-fashioned' thing. Kind of."

"Whereabouts besides names?" asks Bella curiously.

"...You've noticed the clothes, right?" she says. "And, like, the architecture? And the cars? Oh, man, the cars."

"I don't pay a lot of attention to people's clothes, but now that you mention it... I didn't know if the architecture was old-fashioned or just elaborate and not compromising for things like air conditioning. I wasn't paying a lot of attention to car models on the Automagicka."

"Magic people's cars tend to be old," says Tony. "And not even, like, vintage. The crappy kind of old. I mean, once in a while you get a classy old 'Vette or something, but most of the time it's sixty-year-old crapmobiles."

"I know almost nothing about cars," shrugs Bella. "My mom has a station wagon and what I know about it is it's white. My dad just drives his police car."

"I know lots about cars," Tony says proudly.

"Are cars interesting? Compared to magic?" asks Bella skeptically.

"...Uh..."

"Well, maybe they are, I wouldn't know," says Bella, "but you have a magic mom, if my mom was magic I don't think I'd know a single other thing, I'd just spend all my time reading about it and asking questions about it."

Tony is now frowning.

"What?"

"...Nothing," she sighs. "I don't know."

"I didn't, like, offend you, did I? I don't want to go around offending people just because I was raised by Muggles and don't know what's okay to say."

"That's the weird thing," says Tony, "you were raised by Muggles but you're talking like a clueless pureblood. I shouldn't have to tell you that Muggles are capable of inventing some cool stuff that magic can't handle as well, that should be something you already know. You've seen a computer before, right?"

"Computers are cool, sure," says Bella. "But magic - magic is just cheating at cool."

"Sure," says Tony. "To you. To me they're both ordinary levels of cool."

"I guess that's fair," agrees Bella. "Maybe I'll get all used to magic and then it'll only be about like computers." Pause. "I think that would be sad, though."

"In no way would that be sad," Tony says definitively. "You just think that because you don't appreciate how cool computers are."

"No, I mean - I don't feel amazed about computers. If I got less amazed about magic, that would be sad. Maybe it would be okay if I got more amazed about computers instead."

"I'm amazed about both of them!" says Tony. "But only a little, 'cause I'm used to them both."

"I want there to be, like, more and more coolness in my life, and more and more feeling amazed about it, not less."