"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."

"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?"