"Imagine someone whose only knowledge of the material is that explosives explode, attempting to use them to make a propelled vehicle. They may be successful, but you probably want to keep your distance anyway. That's humans, or any species that lives less than two hundred years, inventing spells."

"Well, I'd want to be close enough to contain the disaster, but point taken. Heavy divinatory use before I try anything novel, then."

"Good, good. That's the kind of thinking that keeps your face from melting off."

Jayce is experimenting with trying to draw coins for Leo. He clears the bin of extraordinary blessings, then he gets birth blessing sets for his brother and sister, plus his own minus "synthesis". "It really doesn't want to bless you," he says. "It's like trying to get grace for Kiri."

"What happens if you just keep drawing?"

Jayce draws some more. When the bin can no longer produce birth blessings for anybody in the room, he draws some more. "Charm... but it could mean nothing..." Draw, draw. "...Alphabetical order. It's giving me what's left in alphabetical order."

"Yep. Here, I'll put back everything except the extraordinaries and our birth blessings, see what you get now."

He picks three coins and proffers them.

"Those are all beauty. I will feel pointlessly flattered by association."

"As will I!" He selects six more and shows the two distinct signs.

"Certainty, change."

"Alphabetical. In English. The coins learned English to spite me. I'm taking that as a compliment."

Kiri giggles.