Aw! It's cute. She smiles at it.

"I was not expecting you to go to these sorts of lengths for coffee," she admits, a little amused.

"I like to be thorough. Two, please," he tells the person who came to greet them, and they're led to a table inside.

"If you'd been this serious you could have invited me to dinner instead! I would have worn a nicer dress."

"I like to keep some mystery and expectation. Then maybe I'll tempt you to a second date."

"Ah, I see. Very clever."

"I try," he says wryly. They get menus, but James refuses his. "I know what I'm ordering, thank you."

Yvette has no such issues with the menu, she'll definitely take hers, thanks. "Oh? Been here before?"

"Well I did know to take you here. Yes, but only once."

"Aha. So was this very pre-planned, or just the first place you thought of?"

"Neither? It was the first place I thought of after I thought of asking you out for coffee."

Smile. "Okay. Well, it's cute."

"I'm glad you like it," he says, smiling, too. "So, I think you owed me an explanation of what sorts of magical powers you would get, if you could get any."

Snort. "It depends on the nature of the magical powers on offer! If I could just get any I'd just be terribly boring and get omnipotence, and then where would we be?"

He laughs. "Okay, okay, let's see... Personal powers, you can have things like telepathy, sight-range telekinesis, empathy control, the ability to find anyone if someone else describes them to you, the ability to find anyone you've met, electricity-charged skin, does this aesthetic seem to form a coherent whole?"

"Not... really, no. There were even two finding people powers, that just seems excessive, does everyone get a unique power or are we just occasionally changing minor things about a powerset and calling it different?"

"There are no exact copies, but there can be nearly identical one, like being able to hear versus see thoughts, or tracking by knowing someone's face versus having talked to them for five minutes."

She tilts her head. "That is extremely specific, and makes it hard to really say what sort of power I'd get without knowing what else is there in this hypothetical place where magic powers are handed out. Uh. Telepathy's a terrible power and I don't want it anywhere near me. Electricity charged skin is so... not useful at all to anything I'd want to do. Finding people is silly, I have a brother that is useful for such things and it would be a bit of a waste to use my singular magic power on a slightly better version of a thing I already possess by proxy."

He grins. She doesn't know how right she is. Yet. "Let me see, more examples... there's someone who's able to read your entire life history at a touch, there's someone who can perceive and identify relationships between any two people, there's someone who has control over the four elements..."

"Eugh, there's what? I mean the elements thing is cool and depending on how it worked I'd maybe want to steal that, but ew, memory reading and relationship reading, no."

"I suppose those powers are somewhat absolutely terrifying," he says mildly.

"Little bit. Where are you getting them from, they're very specific, are you inspired by a book or something?"

"Or something," he nods. "Not a published book, but a story I caught a long time ago. I don't know all the details but I do remember most of the types of magical powers in it."

"Well. All right." She props her head on a hand and hums, thoughtfully. "So there's mind control and people-finding and electricity generation and elemental control and telekinesis. This is all sounding pretty random, is there some kind of distribution pattern for the powers? I would like to avoid being a repeat of any kind, I'm vain enough to want to be a unique and precious resource."

"The vast majority of people don't have any magic. Among those who do, the powers you'd intuitively think of as 'more powerful' are rarer; so mind-reading and emotional manipulation and elemental control are on the rarer end, while enhanced senses or the electricity are more common. But like I said, all powers are exactly individual.—also, do you want to order? Conversation tends to be better while in expectation of tasty things."

"Oh. Right. I should feed myself, that would be a good thing to do. I'm going to put hypothetical magic talk on hold while I do that." She peers at the menu and picks a sandwich that doesn't seem objectionable and would go well with coffee, and also coffee.