"Happily. ...Oh, I should mention, the phobia might not stay as gone as it is right now forever. Normally you'd have done all that over a few sessions. It shouldn't come back very much, and if nothing else terrible involving scissors happens to you it will never be as bad as it was again. It might pop up a little bit and then subside."

"Good to know. I won't assume the worst if I pick up a pair of hedgeclippers and feel inexplicably nervous, then."

"That's the spirit."

"Immediately going out and buying a bunch of scoop-necked tops when I get home would probably be an overreaction, though."

"You could maybe get one, but not a bunch. And you should be long term stable in a year or so."

"Yyyyeah. I can't help you with that from here."

Sigh. "I have powers this time, so I'm not seriously worried he'll be able to do anything really nasty this time. But he's still--a threat."

"Yeah."

"Oh well. Worst comes to absolute worst I start over again."

"Assuming it keeps happening, yeah, you got a good deal there."

"Mhm. Being a baby's unfun enough to give me plenty of incentive to keep from getting killed, and aside from that I see no point in worrying that I might just not wake up someday."

"Nice arrangement. I just have to try to make enough money that I can get rezzed if I die of anything other than old age."

"...Oh, nice, we don't have any kind of resurrection at all, unless you count the reincarnation."

"I mean, most people can't afford it and it doesn't work on old age, but yes, if I go hiking and get killed by some kind of flaming moss, say, then if my parents take up a sufficient collection I may be retrieved."

"I don't think we have flaming moss, either."

"I think there's such a thing as flaming ice...but that's not usually a hazard to hikers."

"I'm pretty sure there's flaming moss in the woods near campus. I'm pretty careful about sticking to the warded paths. I only have high school level arcana so far, and subtle arts aren't especially good against random woodland hazards which aren't people. Flaming ice we don't have."

"We don't really have magic at all, unless you count powers."

"Are those not magic? Subtle arts technically isn't either."

Shrug. "They could be. We don't really know."

"Well, if you're otherwise short on magic I guess 'does it make magic detection spells detect magic' is not the question to ask."

"Yeah, no. Do you know any magic detection spells? I don't know how far high school level arcana would go."

"Not far. I could maybe cast a couple of things with an hour of prep time and all my old notes but it was not what you'd call a high quality wizarding education. And that in particular wasn't covered."

"Oh well. That question shall go unanswered, then."