"To you or to whoever casts them on you?"

"...Either. I had assumed only the former was possible."

"Roxbury mentioned witchcraft's addictive and dangerous. We can probably cough up a witch who's heavy-duty enough to do it without serious problems but they'd be a little tough to schedule for obvious reasons. I did my own mental defenses and I had to pretend to be sick for a week."

"I keep forgetting that your magic has costs. Daeva don't get tired, and the only danger is not knowing what you're doing well enough and breaking things. Guess that's a 'not worth it' then."

"I mean, I wouldn't go that far, I still did it for myself, but I can't just whip up a set of wards right now unless I want to be high for three days and pissy for four."

"It'll wait for someone heavy-duty. I'm probably not being exposed to a lot of people who want to read my mind right now."

"Yeah. I'll remind Roxbury." She flips to elsewhere in her notebook and writes this down.

"Lots of stuff that's happening at the speed of bureaucracy. When I agreed to stay here until otherwise permitted I assumed it'd be for one day, two at most."

"Where else d'you want to go?"

"I don't want to go anywhere specific, I want to have control of my location. I could just leave and wander the Earth or I'd be freaking out a fair bit more, but I can't do that without wrecking whatever working relationship I've earned and threatening to start spells flying."

"You'd scare people, is I think the major concern."

"Not much different than being an unbound fairy on the other Earth there... I could fly through the non-touristy parts of the grand canyon. Eh, ignore my complaining if you want, griping about something makes me feel temporarily better about it even if it doesn't get rid of the thing."

"I hear ya."

"I've trying to think of understandable ways to explain how all this stuff works, care to be a test audience?"

"Sure."

She follows along pretty intelligently given her prior education in the area.

After an hour and a bit, "It seems I can be a semi-effective teacher, which is probably going to be useful. That's enough for now though, I should get back to working on these tools."

"Sure. I've got a training thing I'm supposed to do sometime today if you don't need me."

"What are they even training you on? Endless streams of rules?"

"Some of that, and I have to be in decent physical condition to the limits of my ability, and I need to know the standard spells."

"Hm. Good luck with that."