And the next thing Lúthien knows she is being set down from a bridal carry by the side of a gravel road. I don't remember if I introduced myself. I'm Bella. Bella vaults casually over the hood of the car; her buckler shield dilates and she pulls a key out of it and unlocks the vehicle.

You must have a lot of practice at that.

I have stolen this car a few times but I don't actually have that much practice at carrying people around while escaping the hospital! She pops the locks, demonstrates the use of the seatbelt. Hop in.

She is utterly fascinated and runs her hands over every available surface. This is magical. Wow.

Cars aren't magic. Most things are not magic unless you actually observe a girl, witch, or evil alien doing them.

You couldn't do this in a forge. Dwarves couldn't do this. How?

I don't personally know how to build a car, hasn't come up. She turns the key in the ignition and pulls out of the gravel drive. They're made in factories, probably mostly by robots in this era.

I don't know what those are either. Wow. We're going so fast!

We aren't even on the highway yet. Put your seatbelt on.

She does. This is so cool!

Glad you like it. I'm gonna drive into the middle of nowhere for a bit, should allow quite unsupervised singing.

Okay. The middle of nowhere?

Some bit of forest without anything in it.

Oh, okay. I was worried you meant like the edge of the world or something.

...this planet is a sphere.

Really? Weird.

Planets in general in this world are spheres, what are they where you're from? I read once that toruses could work, although they wouldn't naturally occur...

Well, ours wasn't naturally occurring, my mom and the other Powers made it. It's flat. What do you mean 'would work', would hold together without magic?

Yeah.

If I ever see her again I'll ask her why they didn't do it round. 

So you're basically a demigod?

Useless one, though. My world's at war and all I do are crops and happiness. I really hope my magic works here. The chance to actually make a difference -

...I get the feeling but it's not, you know, always super fun.

I do get to treat the wounded and notify the families of the dead and hold the funerals when people come back from the fighting. 

Fair enough.