"Lot of words to keep track of with six. Unless you subdivide."

"It does not! Not in my language, anyway."

"My world mostly does gendered pronouns. Some places do role pronouns but then they need something separate for kids."

Nod. "I can't think of anywhere that pronouns based on," she tugs her right ear. "It's much less, hm, fundamental? Than gender. To us."

"Makes sense."

"What's Alex like?"

"He's good at drawing. He's not eclipsed so he went through a regular educational track, now he's in college trying to think of something more remunerative to major in than art."

"Oh, I did something similar in secondary school. My passion is poetry--and linguistics, as an extension of that, but none of the available jobs in linguistics, ah, involved the things that appeal to me about it. So I apprenticed to a perfumer after I graduated, and that went very well indeed."

"I don't think that'd be Alex's thing."

"Not in the specifics, no."

"He keeps making jokes about just working for me."

"I don't have a sense of how viable that is."

"I make good money and will eventually have enough going on to want a PA, and he'd suit. But eventually."

Nod. "My sibling does magic theory. They're brilliant."

"What kinds of things do magic theorists in your world get up to?"

"Mostly details on the shapes needed to carve out abilities."

"Like, 'this one is a Sierpinski triangle' -"

"--I don't know what that is but no? The shapes are very complicated. There's a special notation."

"It's a fractal."

"Then maybe."