"Sure." He does it back and forth and back again.

"You're definitely going somewhere," Miles concludes. "And coming back again in one piece. It's not, I don't know, creating you spontaneously from nothing every time. Just - swapping you out with the alternate model."

"Yes, that's the idea behind Lialenan theory."

"Well, Lialenan theory is on the right track then. I can't tell if conjured matter comes from the same place without an example, of course."

Kaylo reaches into his pocket, pulls out a little spout, twists it, and pours the resulting thin stream of water into his mouth.

"Pulled from somewhere, not created out of nothing," says Miles. "Huh. Does that mean your magic plain can't create things out of nothing, I wonder? Creating things out of nothing is one of the simplest elementary applications of taieli, the trouble comes when you want to create particular things with desired characteristics and not just undirected explosions."

Kaylo turns off the spout. "If conjuration doesn't do it, then probably not, although there might be a way to do it that we just haven't invented yet."

"Huh. Well, I guess it's only fair; taieli can't do interworld transport." He reflects on this statement for a second and then adds, "Yet."

"Yet as in you could graft this capability onto the system or as in you could learn how from within an already-available array of things doable therewith?"

"As in one of the other simplest elementary applications of taieli is copying and altering an existing thing, and spells definitely qualify as things for this purpose. I suspect if I put the work in, learning how interworld wizardry works and learning how to use rilte, I could make altered iltaiel copies of summoning or sending spells and use them to move between worlds."

"You almost certainly don't have a channeling capacity, which might interfere with anything beginning with a wizard spell as an ingredient," says Kaylo.

"I have an interworld transport spell on me right now," he points out.

"Yes, and it might decide to bite if you try to claim it for yourself," says Kaylo. "I'm not saying it will, I don't know what you're working with, but it's a risk factor I feel obliged to point out."

"...Bite me how?"

"It might try to go through more channel than you have, which is to say the zero channel that you have, and when spells try to go through channels without room for them the caster dies."

"Yeah, I've noticed that. I'm definitely going to avoid letting my results express themselves as more wizard spells. I'm not even sure that's possible to do on purpose, and I'm pretty confident it's possible to avoid."

"If you say so. I wish I could see the thing you're looking at but I'm not sure how to devise an analysis that piggybacks on a sense I can't conceptualize in the first place."

"Can't help you there. I couldn't begin to explain the actual impressions I get from this thing; the most I can do is articulate my conclusions."

"Maybe when you've had longer to get used to it you'll come to some vocabulary for it," suggests Kaylo.

"Maybe. I'm not at all sure. It's still pretty new."

"That word you used for the aspect of the magic, rilte, did you just learn a handful of those?"

"No, the monument taught me the whole language. For some reason. It's handy for thinking about taieli in, I'll give it that."

"Because I can speak that, too," says Kaylo, in that language. "If that helps any."

"Oh, huh," says Miles, likewise in Aiha. "Being a dragon must be really convenient."

"It is, much of the time," agrees Kaylo smugly.