"How so?"

There is a long table in the dinning room. With assorted fruits and pancakes. Adam's siblings say good morning in a way that does not betray any knowledge about other worlds.

But Mary Jane looks at him a bit worriedly before offering a pile of pancakes. People are picking their toppings by themselves.

"Well, everyone here seems much nicer than at home, is all. Thank you, these look tasty!"

Pancakes look like some kind of food, anyway. He goes for the most recognizable topping: Chopped fruit.

They have a variety. Adam serves himself some blueberries and maple syrup. Nom.

"So, what are your boys plans for the day?"

"I want to talk to the witch I heard about. She sounds interesting. If that's not possible, I want to read things in the library all day."

"You are welcome. Adam, are you going along with your friend?"

"Sure," Adam says between bites.

"Onward, to greater learning! After we eat. These are tasty."

"Well, thank you."

Adam whispers. "How does scrying for the witch works?"

"I'll figure something out. Maybe get me something to sketch with."

"That's easy."

Back to breakfast?

Nico is basically stuffing himself. These are good. And being full is a nice feeling.

Adam is not about to refuse pancakes, but eventually breakfast comes to an end and Adam gets Nico some paper.

"We don't have these," he says of the pen.

He writes down some notes and sketches of something like flowcharts, thinking about how specific he needs to be to get the correct witch.

Adam is interested, but will not pester Nico with questions if those are bad.

(He does not understand the language.)

Questions are okay. He is mostly trying to figure out how to reduce how much work the magic has to do, and therefore the cost of it, to find the witch - and defining 'the witch' for the magic, too.

Does describing the witch help? She looks like she is from the hope peninsula (brown skin with green hair), wears black, named Temperance...

"Hair and skin helps. Wears black doesn't. Name kinda helps. I probably have it good enough now. Only looking nearby and stuff."

Nod nod. "Do you have anything that will make it easier to actually go there?"

"Not really. Flying is kind of... I can do it, but it's dangerous and inefficient."

"We do have regular hiking gear and even if she is a witch I know that hiking isn't that dangerous around this parts..."

"I can hike. I thought she was close to town?"

"Yeah, but on the far side of close to town." Adam makes a face at what he just said. "I mean it's still a bit of a hike and she might be on a marshy spot or something."