After a decade we'll be that fast?

Probably longer than that, but maybe, if you're practicing for speed with the one spell.

How long is a more conservative estimate?

She considers. Thirty, maybe forty - I don't know much about how quickly people get good at casting, I never paid that much attention to mages. I could cast it in less than half that time, if I practiced ahead of time with the spell and was expecting the place to be weird and distracting, so definitely no more than fifty years, but that's the only thing I can say for sure.

You think you got fifty years' head start with your gift?

Yeah, that's how it usually works - someone with a gift that they hadn't practiced before is about as good, to start with, as someone who's been practicing steadily for fifty years. And then keeps getting better from there; I haven't improved much, but I'm a little faster and more accurate with the sense.

It's probably worth waiting the fifty years but you might want to be ready to try it if the Enemy tries something.

Mmhmm. The next thing we need to do is see if we can find a better version of the magic detection form, one that'll let me find worlds without magic.

Where do we go to look for that?

Cities in my world. I'm not sure how to visit them safely, though - I shouldn't go and whoever does shouldn't mention knowing a kobold, but aside from that I don't know what you need to do or not do.

Well, we can make a portal and observe and see, right?

Mmhmm. Now?

If you're not tired out!!

Yeah, it has been kind of a rough day. Tomorrow. She curls up next to him.

Okay. And he starts singing.

Ooh, singing. She sings along.

Eventually it gets close to dinnertime. I need to go send those people for Maitimo, she says, and I might stay for dinner, I want to see how it goes.

How it goes?

Nod. With them talking to them. I'm used to dealing with people from very different cultures than mine, if something goes wrong with that I might be able to help.

Did the first encounter go badly?

No, but they didn't talk very long, there wasn't much chance for it to.

Okay. Good skill.

And she hugs him and goes.

And they have people interested in spending the next couple decades getting a new species up to speed.

And she loads them up with spells and makes sure they all know that she's available to talk to if they run into cultural problems and sends them off.

And they meet the humans and start practicing their language and set up their tents and cook their food and talk with anyone who comes over.