"Yeah, fair enough. This would be so much easier with lots of different helpful kinds."

"Yep. Instead it's the Queen who has those."

"I wonder if sorcery can be used to mimic some of that, but they feel like pretty different things, and it'd take a long time if possible..."

"Sorcery's generally not able to mimic kind magics straight-up, at best there's a cheaty imitation, it's been tried."

"I see. I'm out of ideas."

"Tomorrow is another day."

"Yeah. We should probably research as much as we can about kinds."

"There are books on that."

"Yeah, I figured. Is there an approximately known number of kinds?"

"...a few hundred?"

"I ask 'cause at some point we're gonna have to, like, stop researching and hope the remaining unknowns are a rounding error."

"Yep. And the one-of-a-kinds will not usually have books about them except the Queen and I don't know how many of those there are, but at least them she's not guaranteed to have if they'd be useful to her."

"Yeah, and maybe, just maybe, we might run into one who's friendly to this plan. And then maybe the Queen will decide to give us her crown of her own volition."

"...what I mean is that the one of a kinds might appear continents away and avoid the Queen ever hearing about them."

"I know that, but it also means there's a minuscule chance we'll run into one of those that's not the Queen's, and then I joked about how minuscule that chance was."

"Okay, so, learn healing sorcery, research all kinds there are..."

"Anything else?"

"I'm honestly not sure. Her main advantages seem to be knowing every fairy's name, thousands of years of experience with orders, and having as many of every interesting not-one-of-a-kind there is she might want. I and all mortals counter the first one, and technology might help with all of the third one."

"Mortals only counter the names thing at the cost of being especially food-vulnerable."

"But fairies are also especially food-vulnerable to mortals."

"Only until she feeds you, which she'll do at the first opportunity."

"Yeah, but we have lots of mortals other than me."

"What's your point?"

"That her feeding me isn't necessarily that bad and could be strategically useful, if we could use other mortals to convey orders."