"Right. With magic."

"Yes."

"Which my world doesn't have. As far as I know, at least."

"I guess. Weird."

"I think we've established that weirdness is relative."

"Yeah, yeah."

"Magic does sound nice, though," she allows, a little wistfully.

"I don't do a lot of it myself. Got an aunt and a cousin who're wizards though. Had a girlfriend once who was a witch. And another one who was a fire mage."

"What do those mean?"

"Wizards do spells with gestures and nonsense words that do whatever. Teleporting and stuff. Witches make potions like the headache thing. Fire mages do fire."

"I suppose I could probably have guessed the fire one."

"She was fun. My kinda dragon also does fire. Differently, but still."

"How do you do fire?"

"Dragons can all breathe fire, in natural form, right? Some of us like it better and are better at it, I'm one of those."

"Oh, like wyverns? Come to think of it, wyverns also fly, although they're not scaly."

"We don't have those. Maybe like wyverns? I don't really have room to shapeshift in here and let you compare."

"Wyverns are flying beasties that eat fish and other kinds of meat and blow fire at you if you get too close. Sometimes people can catch them and train them, especially if you can get 'em from the egg, but it's risky."

"Sounds it. There are little critters in Elcenia that look more like dragons than anything else and they're called drakes. People keep them as pets."

"Sounds a little like humans keeping monkeys as pets. Cute."

"Yeah, they're cute. Lots of different kinds. I'm not so much a pets person though."

"I like them in theory, but not so much in practice. I enjoy petsitting for my friends sometimes, but I'm always glad to hand them back by the time I'm done."

"Yeah, exactly!"

"I might feel differently about a tiny winged lizard, but that's probably the novelty talking."

"They can be high-maintenance."

"Ah. Never mind then. I'm saving up my tolerance of 'responsible for another living thing with high maintenance needs' for when I have kids someday."