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Mallyn's first concern is whether he and Rithka have been permanently lost. Rithka, on the other hand, knows exactly what's going on - "this just happens sometimes! It's okay, we can go home whenever!" - and eventually has him reassured enough that he sits down at the bar and stutters his way through asking her for potato soup. Rithka gets a walnut to nibble on companionably from her squirrely perch around his neck, but doesn't feel like shifting to eat anything substantial. She was in the snack cabinet earlier spoiling her dinner.
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"Well, yeah, you have to learn it," says Rithka. "We just - talk. We know all the languages, we couldn't learn them. There's too many, and anyway nobody can learn Draconic."
"Dragons knowing languages? Yeah."
"Oh. Yeah, Draconic is pretty magic all right. Mallyn likes to learn words from it even though he can't know the whole thing."
Mallyn's ears are going pink again.
Mallyn's ears are going pink again.
"He's supposed to be learning Leraal," says Rithka reproachfully.
"I am," protests Mallyn. "On top of reading Martisen!"
"I am," protests Mallyn. "On top of reading Martisen!"
Mallyn doesn't seem to think it's funny.
Rithka turns into a squirrel again and resumes being a scarf.
Rithka turns into a squirrel again and resumes being a scarf.
"I know," she says, sounding very satisfied with herself. "I learned to be a squirrel not too long ago! I like it."
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"If I could turn into a squirrel I bet I would," muses Felicity. "Is there a kind of magic that does that?"
"It's dragon magic," she says. "Sorry."
"Kyma can," says Mallyn. "Turn into things, I mean. Rhysel doesn't, but her apprentice does."
"Kyma can," says Mallyn. "Turn into things, I mean. Rhysel doesn't, but her apprentice does."
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"Dragons get to do a lot of cool stuff," he observes. "Can - kyma - do cool stuff too? Other than turn into things?"
"Aunt Rhysel made our house with kamai," Rithka reminds him.
"They can do healing too," says Mallyn. "Uh, differently from how lights do."
"And," says Rithka, "illusions, and mindspeech, and lifelinks, and golems, and they can also move around channeling capacity so people who don't have any can be wizards, and make it so people who couldn't usually be kyma can."
"They can do healing too," says Mallyn. "Uh, differently from how lights do."
"And," says Rithka, "illusions, and mindspeech, and lifelinks, and golems, and they can also move around channeling capacity so people who don't have any can be wizards, and make it so people who couldn't usually be kyma can."
"Usually one kama doesn't know all those things," amends Rithka.
"Aunt Rhysel is an elemental kama," Rithka says. "And she's working on wild and death kamai too because she's starting the whole kamai program at the magic school and has to know more kinds. And her husband does elemental too and also image and death and those are all the kinds there are."
"I think you can, like... kill bugs with it?" says Rithka.
"It does more things on Barashi," says Mallyn. "Some of it won't work in Elcenia."
"It does more things on Barashi," says Mallyn. "Some of it won't work in Elcenia."
"I don't know. Even if I was going to be a kama I'd have to wait like eighty years," says Rithka. "You can only do it if you're on your way to grown up or older."
"Anything, I guess. Some of it's probably forbidden though," says Mallyn.
"Anything, I guess. Some of it's probably forbidden though," says Mallyn.
"I'm not a kama either," Mallyn points out.