"Maybe I can help." She swings the stick sideways and hops onto it. "Witches can carry things flying. I'm not strong at it yet, but I can carry forty pounds if you tie it to my stick."

"You can help carry my bag, then, if you'd like. It's a good bit less than forty pounds."

"Sure." So she ties it to the front end of the stick and floats after Sarati with it, a good deal steadier than yesterday.

When they get to the ship, Sarati shows her where to store things inside, then takes her back to the deck.

"We need to raise the sails before launching," she says, pointing to where large poles are laid across the top of the ship. "There's a pull system to help." She shows Grenadine how to operate it.

The sails, when extended, are gossamer thin, shimmering slightly in the morning light. They have abstract designs and calligraphy embroidered into them in light thread. "The embroidery's not just for show; it has magic in it, strengthening the sails and lending them speed."

Gren stares, fascinated, at them. "...Huh. Are other parts of the ship magic too?"

"All of it, really."

She looks around some more. "Do you mind if I fly around some before you leave? I think... I'm not sure."

"Go ahead. I have a lot of work to do in the engines, too, if you don't mind skipping that."

"What's an engine anyway? I'll ask later, I wanna try something..."

She floats off.

Sarati watches her for a bit, then goes and gets the engines up and running.

Grenadine is mostly flying closer and away from the ship, looking at the sails, looking at the mist, looking at the forest.

Eventually she comes back inside, still looking thoughtful.

"Did you figure anything out?" Sarati asks, returning from the bottom level where the engines are when she hears Grenadine land.

"I think... I can tell where magic is."

"Cool! That's a pretty useful ability."

"I guess so. It's not one of the common kinds of special magics."

"It's pretty hard to do with native magic, especially to any level of detail."

"So now I'd really better learn all I can about it."

"About your magic?"

"About your magic!"

"Silly me, of course. Well, there's lots of different kinds in the realm. The native kind is shareable, and so are a lot of the widespread magics."

"Being a Witch like me isn't shareable at all. It's random which girls get magic."

"Only girls?"

"Yeah. Only girls. And not many."

"That's interesting. I've heard about gender-selective magic, but it's pretty rare. Usually not learnable, of course."

"I don't know any more about it. I don't know much about most things that aren't farming I think."