I bet your magic and our nonmagic science stuff interacts interestingly, we should put Imliss on figuring that out.

I want to get your science crystal balls cooperating with magic crystal balls!

Maybe we should try actively recruiting, I pulled Gloria and Klaudia in because I knew they were trustworthy and Idaia needed more moral support than she had but there's other people I'd be willing to try.

You'd know better than I would how people here would react to the introduction of magic-and-stuff. My world's got enough variety that it would take something colossal to get a reaction bigger than 'Tuesday already?' from more than fifty miles away, but you've got an all-human population, people used to science, no magic anything...

I mean, I'm still thinking fairly small-scale, talking to people I know, not announcing it on national television or anything, but I bet a lot of people will react to Idaia's magic stuff with 'that explains so much about her'.

Well, I have no objections.

You know how normal people are weird and rich people are eccentric? Idaia earned eccentric status by keeping half the campus supplied with pork.

She mentioned she's always got some around. How should I usually be getting meals, by the by, I assume you don't go out to eat literally every day?

Oh, eventually we'll take you grocery shopping, short term you can mooch cafeteria points off people.

Are the dorm kitchens pretty usable? They were of inconsistent quality in my university. Also someone will have to teach me to use science appliances.

They are usable enough that the reaction to large quantities of raw pork was unambiguously positive. Any of us can teach you to use appliances.

Cool. Cooking is one of the things that does not annoy my universe even if you do something a little experimental so I figured it was a safe hobby to pick up even with my contaminated heuristics, I'm not bad.

Sweet.

Mm-hm.

I'm going to guess that fashion is another such area.

Yeah, although that one I didn't go into.

I probably would've.

There's a few things like that. Anything - everyday and aesthetic that you definitely couldn't go kill a dragon with.

I don't think I would have been happy in your world. But I think I could have--turned things that are just recreational for me, now, into something resembling a replacement for my absent purpose.

I was leaning hard on subtle arts and being a therapist - subtle arts is very amenable to practice effects and anything to do with the mind you don't want to experiment much with anyway, it was - livable.

I think it'd kill me if I tried to live there now but if I didn't know what I was missing I'd just be less happy than I am.

Unfortunately, says Bella, we do have science fantasy.

...Ah.

About, like, technology? If it's just technology I'd probably be wistful but okay, it's biology that really interests me.

There's bio-themed science fantasy too. I don't know how close it matches, Valinor was pretty low-tech.

I don't know. Maybe reading about it isn't the same thing.

Anyway.