"Not every day one gets to meet people from another world. Do you need anything nowish? I could use lunch."

"Lunch would be lovely. I'll go get Daria, she's stuck on a diagram, won't emerge by herself until she's got it and that could be hours yet."

"Sure. What-all do you eat?"

"I don't like anything that's too spicy, but otherwise we're not picky."

She pulls on her connection with Daria, warning her that they're coming up. 

"I spotted a plausible buffet that doesn't have a prominent no-eclipsed sign so that'd be my pick."

"- is that common?"

"Eclipsed eat a lot."

"Ooh, okay," she laughs. "I was worried it was some kind of anti-eclipsed sentiment we'd managed to miss."

"Nah, only all-you-can-eat restaurants are wary of us. And anybody with a publicly posted 'eat this large thing and it's free' challenge."

"I'm glad the worst you get is disgruntled restaurant owners."

They're at Mariam and Daria's room - she gives the door a perfunctory knock and lets herself in.

Daria's sprawled on the bed closer to the door, frowning at the notebook in her hand and the sheets of paper with diagrams spread around her.  "You're the psion, right?" she says when she looks up and notices Isabella. "I'm trying to do a call for an eclipsed, if I can use your hair for this thing it'll go a lot faster."

"Not off that much description you can't."

"I'm trying to figure out how to specify 'eclipsed' to my magic," she says, gesturing to the drafts of diagrams around her. "That's not a natural category, especially since my world doesn't have them, and if I have an example to point it at I won't need to do something ridiculous like try to see if moonstone will work. It won't do anything to you or let me learn anything about you, unless you let me do a live call and see whether you specifically look different to it than the people on my world."

"You can explain more over lunch."

"Lunch? If you want, sure, where are we going?"

"Buffet I saw up the road."

"So what do you do?" She asks as she gathers up her papers. "I'm assuming precog from what Dar- Crescent said, but aside from that?"

"Magically or with my life?"

"Magically, though I assume what you do with your life relates to your magic."

"I can talk to my brother and lucid dream and I have an eidetic memory, retroactive."

"How is lucid dreaming magic? We have that too, though not everyone can do it."

"I mean, you can learn a similar skill non-magically, but I can do it consistently and with all my faculties online and if I worked on it more I could dream share. All my faculties except doing or improving at magic, that doesn't seem to work in our sleep."

"Huh, that's a weird limit. Have they done MRI scans of people thinking about magic, do you know?"

"Yes, why?"

"Are they any different from non-eclipsed thinking about the same things? It's so weird that your magic works by just thinking about it, it'd make a little more sense if there was something else going on there."