Sure!

Okay.

She sets up a hide with a portal in it, rather than enspell him each time, and there's a version that just makes enspelled things straightforwardly glow and one that outlines them with colors and one that adds a glow as if they're backlit and one that gives them a polka dot pattern and one that makes them sparkle with tiny pinpricks of light - I'm probably going to use this one for your world's magic -

Oooohhh! 

Yeah. That one's little too distracting to use for something as common as I think my magic might end up being, but I really want to use it somewhere.

Our magic's also going to be all over the place but you could use it for specific kinds.

Yeah, I could do that.

Most of our swords and armor are magic, the walls are...

I think it might make the most sense to use it for something that it'd be helpful to notice quickly? But I'll need to know more about your world's magic and how the detection form reacts to it to really say.

And if we want the walls sparkly I can just do that, she grins.

We probably don't want the walls sparkly.

No, probably not. Maybe for special occasions or something.

Anyway, if we're not going to use the sparkles for your world's magic in general, I think the backlit glow is my second choice, from the ones I've come up with so far - she adjusts the hide to show the combination of that and the curls. It's not as pretty, but the combination isn't as distracting. Or I could switch it, use the glow for mine and the curls for yours.

Something that stands out from a distance so we can see if the Enemy's doing it is probably the most important consideration.

Good point. And the glow is a good choice for that, I can do it so it's still full size even if what it's reacting to is small or far away.

Will it be a problem that our vision's so different...

Could be. I'll definitely get some help with testing things before I suggest that anything be permanent.

I think they'll enjoy testing things.

Yup.

Before the war, when my father was alive, they were so curious, all the time, about everything...

Yeah. And they haven't lost that, exactly, but it might never be painless again... Wish I'd found you before all this.

That'd have been lovely. Could have crossed the sea with a portal...

Could've kept you free, could've kept people safe... she sighs. Well, I'm here now, anyway.

And it's not too late.

Yeah. And I guess I can't let it bother me too much, I wasn't even alive when this started...

It's only been five Years.

Mmhmm, and I'm not that old; I'll be thirty-two this spring. We age faster than you do, I'm sure.

Yeah, we take five Years to grow up.