"If you can find a suitably dramatic and usefully prosocial ritual—or merely useful or cool one—sure."

"Man, good thing I can be your researcher-in-chief or you will have no fun on your way to snatch the world in your iron-like benevolent grasp."

"I will totally have fun, but it will be derived from snatching the world in my iron-like benevolent grasp, I don't need to take detours."

"I will keep that in mind, so I don't distract you with better flight spells. Those aren't prosocial, like, at all."

"No but they're otherwise useful!"

"Having overdramatic fun is totally useful! Its fun!"

"It's not useful for my goals!"

"How do you expect being a benevolent despot without having a sense of overdramatic fun? It might actually be a required skill with magic."

"I just have priorities—any overdramatic fun extraneous to the goal of becoming a benevolent despot and keeping myself sane will not happen."

"Aaaaw. Not even a bit of overdramatic fun?"

"Like I said, only as much as I need to to become a good ruler and function well!"

"Oh, then I am very reassured we will get to cast rituals during dramatic thunderstorms, using parchment scroll, ideally the stars and planets would be aligned just right."

"Unless there is a more efficient way to get whatever we want or we have a few hours to kill. My magic detection spell ran out."

Temple casts it again.

"How long do you want to search today?"

"I dunno, maybe we just walk around 'til it gets dark?"

"Sounds good, if I hadn't found you I was just going to try to approach the problem from a different angle."

"Like what?"

"Hopefully something with a very large range, which I don't think would be easy, or something that led me to other magic people, kinda like a compass, which sounds slightly more complex."

"But probably in general more fruitful than walking around aimlessly, I think I must've been a fluke."

"I- wait, no. We have no idea how common magic folk is and I wasn't even sure the spell worked on people - it wouldn't work when I tried to measure my own mana. I felt it was worth spending an hour or so."

"Oh, it totally was, but I mean, by the end of our hour here if we haven't found anyone else I think we might as well conclude we're a freaky coincidence." Beat. "Or morphic resonance."

"Meaning?"

"Ah, not a Discworld fan, I take it?"

"Nope, but please explain."

"Some characters on the Disc—recur. There are several, uh, versions, so to speak, of Mr. Dibbler, and of Corporal Nobby Nobbs, and stuff like that, because their archetypes resonate well. More or less."