"...If you want me to, I will reconstruct psychomancy in the basement, track down your first master, and erase your name and existence from his mind. Just putting that on the table."

"Looks like I have my next project. At this rate I won't get to sorcery until I'm pushing 400." He doesn't look too unhappy about this.

"Will it take that long, really? ...Also, does this psychomancy even necessarily work on fairies?"

"More that if I keep accumulating projects at this rate I'll be occupied for a very long time. I don't mind. And I don't know that it does, but the healing worked. I guess I could test a little bit on you? Erase your memory of what word I just said, or something?"

"I doubt you can and don't want you to try."

"Well, there are other applications. Burst of happiness, temporarily thinking quicker, that sort of thing. It's just the most relevant thing to what I'd be using it for. And do you doubt it because of your leaflettiness, or because you're a fairy, or...?"

"I suspect that doing any sort of mind magic on me would constitute an attack. Even if it wouldn't, it makes me uncomfortable."

"Oh, yeah, the vassal thing. That is inconvenient. Sorry for making you uncomfortable. We could pay somebody three frostberries for a non-invasive test, or something?"

"Maybe. I'll keep an eye out for non-hostile neighbors."

"Potentially, if you want. It doesn't carry an inherent risk, but some fairies have a seduction-based modus operandi for name collecting - or for collecting information that lets them get names other ways - and it would be pretty easy to get you to take some of their food if you were going to be kissing them or anything. You will also attract a lot of attention for being mortal more or less anywhere you go, even if you intend only to visit some specific hypothetical fairy who you're inclined to trust."

"Dammit. I'll stick with blank-body conjuration. Don't want to risk getting nabbed. I can make them for you too, if you want, they're very convenient. Though I guess you've got lower risk, what with your immunity."

"You'll stick with what?"

"Blank-body conjuration. You conjure up a shell that acts kind of like a person for a few hours, with better detail in the relevant bits. Relevant activities ensue. It's easier to just summon a spirit, but if you can't do that for some reason or you just don't want to hassle of bargaining, blank-body is the way to go. Mom taught it to me when I started going all moody and pubescent, it's pretty complicated but once you've got it you've got it."

"...No thank you. It's not actually intelligent, is it?"

"Nope! It runs off your subconscious instincts, very convenient."

"Then that sounds much safer than investigating the hostility levels of the neighbors that closely."

"Yeah, probably. Not sure they'd be very comfortable for it anyway, if your literature is anything to go by you seem to have a pretty mean society."

"It's not good. There are pockets of adequacy. Like libraries. But mostly - yeah."

"Both, really. How do you mean?"

"I suspect blank bodies wouldn't be to my taste regardless but I wouldn't have started thinking about it so soon even if it appealed generally."