He likes the shirts and cargo pants and finds the jeans acceptable, anyway, and will defer to Alex's judgment about his clothing.

[Yeah! And you haven't even seen most of my scars.]

[I guess not! Deliberate scarification is not practiced much in this culture so it didn't occur to me as being downstream of a body-changing edict as opposed to just the torture thing.]

[Does that mean I won't be able to get help if I want more while I'm here?]

[I don't expect it to be impossible, if you're willing to find a tattoo guy who's probably never done it before and see how he does with what he can find on the internet.]

[...I might be better at it than that but I guess if there's not much of a market that's not much of a job skill.]

[Conceivably you could start a trend but I wouldn't count on it if I were you.]

Sigh. [I wonder if there's anything I wouldn't realize was a job skill here.]

[I've already mentioned that you might be unusually good at swordfighting such that people who are into it as a hobby might be interested? Mostly I'm optimistic about the magic thing panning out though.]

[I could try sparring with someone who's good with a sword compared to people here and see if I'm actually better. Do you know how to find someone like that?]

[Not already, I'd poke around on the internet.]

[On the internet?]

They can depart the Nordstrom and head back to her place. [The Internet is... most people in this country and comparably wealthy countries, and even some people in poor countries, have devices, which can communicate with each other. Some devices store a bunch of information, and then I can use my device to ask for it and look at it. The Internet is the phenomenon of asking for and looking at data on other people's devices.]

[What kind of data?]