Leekath nods.

The cafeteria continues to have ice cream.

Brilliance continues to consume it, gradually but steadily. Because it is delicious.

Kaylo is back for his next meal a few angles subsequently. He spots Brilliance and sits with him. "Hey. I see you got rid of Leekath eventually."

"She spent a while reading me my own specs first, though," he says. "Accurately. Down to the shape of a form I've never displayed in this world."

"Divinatory wizardry exists," says Kaylo, and he takes a bite of a sandwich.

"And you, what, think she was scamming me with it? Why?"

"Because she wants people to believe her, I guess? I'm not a psychologist."

"Okay, how does divinatory wizardry work, then? What would she have been able to find out, what wouldn't she?"

"It depends on the spells she uses," shrugs Kaylo.

"And? Aren't you the one who was all excited about what things your magic could tell about my magic? If some girl's got a spell that'll let her walk around telling me every time my mana goes up or down and what I'm using it for and all about the parameters of cosmetic alterations to my forms and step by step how to get into an obscure maintenance mode I didn't know I had and use it to wipe out control codes I didn't know I had either, don't you wanna know what spell it was so you can cast it yourself?"

"...This thing included stuff you didn't know you had? With verifiable results?"

"I don't know what you call verifiable, but I feel pretty verified. The maintenance mode is there, I can use it now that I've done it once - it's grown in, not built in, arose naturally instead of being designed as part of my systems, that's why I didn't know about it."

"Okay, this is starting to sound beyond the bounds of readily accessible divinatory spells unless she's doing serious inventing in her spare time."

"Somehow I thought so," he says.

"The majority of people with her diagnosis are both not wizards and incapable of day to day functioning, though," says Kaylo. "They start hearing things when they're little kids and can't learn to do arithmetic or name the capitals of the countries of the world or whatever."

"I can believe it's a strain to hear stuff talking all the time," says Brilliance. "It sounded like not really the kind of thing you could turn off."

"...possibly," allows Kaylo. "Again not a psychologist."

"Okay, but between 'crazy person who invented spells to tell her all the stuff her crazy is supposed to be telling her, including really obscure things about a kind of magic she can't possibly have heard of before today' and 'actually her magic just works like she says it does', you can see why I might go for the second thing, right?"

"Yyyyes."

"I wonder if Leekath in particular is just an anomaly of some kind or if this would turn up in a meta-analysis."

"Meta-analysis?"

"If I read all the studies that have ever been done on vampiric inanimate audition with this in mind is it going to shake out in an obvious way."