"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."

"Oh well."

"It's not like it would do us much practical good to know, anyway, since our world doesn't have any other things that even might be magic."

"Yeah. Wow, that sounds kind of terrible. What do you do? Subsistence farming and hope?"

"Ehn. We have other stuff."

"Yeah, I suppose even really low-magic cultures manage to produce, like, art. When they aren't getting conquered by high-magic cultures, which wouldn't be a problem on your world."

"Yeah. There've been some problems with countries with more resources to activate people and less ethics trying to make trouble but pretty much everyone has some supers so they usually get ganged up on when that happens."

"Makes sense."

"Also, the funny thing about exposing your citizens to dangerous substances to see who dies and who activates is that the resulting supers are less likely to want to work for you."

"Funny how that happens! Wouldn't have seen it coming."

Giggle.

"Bar's pretty awesome. I got the collected works of an author who doesn't exist in our universe."

"Ooh, that's clever. I might want some books likewise. I have some spending money and I'm not going to find a better place to spend it than here, probably..."

"Well, what kinds of books do you like?"

"Fantasy - in small doses - and literary fiction. Useful nonfiction, like histories that bother to be interesting and thaumatology and stuff about subtle arts - but those aren't things I should probably be wasting my interplanar bar visit on."

"I like science fiction and social speculation the most."

"Science fiction's okay. In small doses, again, I shouldn't get a great big stack of it from here, it just makes me sad if I read too much because I don't have a spaceship or anything."

"Huh. I don't have that problem, but to each their own."

"Oh? You have a spaceship?"