That would help a lot! A considerable amount of space is devoted on connecting mechanisms while also keeping them independent. Adam yawns.

"I have to, like, design a spell to do that. And if you're good at designing it's stronger or takes less points or is less likely to fall apart weirdly. Maybe I'll work on it tomorrow."

"How much work do you have to put on a spell?"

"Well I did my escape-spell in, oh, two months of working on it in secret a couple hours a day? But that was a hard one and it still - well, it took a big sacrifice to actually cast. Something like this I can have something to try in a day probably."

"Heh, and it doesn't involve going anywhere dangerous to collect weird mushrooms or talk to things that speak in riddles?"

"Nope. But doing stuff like that would probably get me more points. Points like adventure, it's a whole thing. I wouldn't be surprised if I got a bit closer to an extra blue point from the sneaking around earlier today."

"Adventure?" Adam says like he finds the term insulting.

"Yep. Soldiers and theives and couriers and hunters and sailors and stuff get the most points. Because of adventure."

"Why?"

"Why do things fall towards the ground? It's just, y'know, how it works."

"At least with the plants you can eventually learn how to tame them."

"Huh, can you do magic with plants?"

"Yeah, you can brew them and stuff. And I guess there is stuff like making charms out of knotted leaves or weapons out of wood."

"Yeah. There are people who try to figure out why things happen. Natural philosophers. I'm more interested in how to make something work than why it works, but I can see the appeal of understanding it all."

"I mean, yeah, I agree with you. But figuring out the why helps people figure out new ways to make stuff work. So it's good there are people doing that for us."

"People are good at different things so it's good that you don't always have to go hunt or pick food from bushes yourself. One guy can get really really good at farming and his wife gets really good at cooking and weaving and the neighbor knows how to build walls and the neighbor's wife knows how to take care of chickens and oh look a town."

"Yeah, my dads jobs are really boring organizational stuff which I would never want to do, but I am glad that they do it."

"Yeah some jobs are weird and useless. A place like this I think has a lot more kinds of jobs than where I'm from. We didn't have fancy clockwork or trucks or steam boats or even glass or good roads like you have."

"You didn't have glass? But it's just... sand that got melted."

"We have glass. It's, like, a bauble or curiosity? Greenish or reddish with bubbles and sand all in it. Somehow nobody thought of making big perfectly clear flat sheets of it and putting it on houses yet."

"What do you use in your windows then?"

"Don't have 'em. Or they're just open if you do."

"Huh, what else did you notice? I think windowpanes are not that complicated."

"Cookies are new. Your clothes are better than ours. I think everyone has soap most of the time from the lack of smell? Indoor lights that aren't magic. Books that aren't hand-written."

He feels very deeply about the cookies, but as the son of a librarian. "Wow, no printing press? That's... very important."