"Sympathy. As opposed to Conquest. Or Effort, but Effort teleportation would be way harder than adapting it for Sympathy, probably."

"Magic?"

"...well, magic's different here."

"Different how?"

"It doesn't have any of the stuff you just said? And teleportation works better."

"Teleportation normally works fine, I just messed up. How do you do magic, then?"

"Uh -" Green hair lady makes a gesture and says a word and now she's a foot to the left. "Like that."

"...Weird. You actually have to talk and gesture? I think my magic's better if it's possible to take away yours by binding and gagging you."

"Because those are the obvious ways to make you not able to do magic?"

"Do you have that problem a lot?"

"No, but I was fleeing a murder attempt when I came here,and my brain hasn't gotten completely out of paranoid mode yet."

"Okay, well, wizards can in fact be prevented from doing magic," says the green hair lady, "but it doesn't come up very much."

"Yeah, probably. ...So, um, I'm...not really sure what to do with myself at this point. I'm not even sure whether my sister's still facing down death by irate teacher or not."

"You were trying to bring your sister along?"

"Yeah."

"...and your magic can't scry her?"

"She's not in range. I checked."

"Well, what's your range?"

"I haven't measured it recently, but pretty large. Comparatively speaking. Hundreds of miles."

"Okay, well, it seems like you need a wizard, but if you're from a spherical planet I bet you don't have any local money..."

"Almost certainly not. Well, is there anything wizards mostly can't do that I might be able to?"

"Uh - resurrect the dead? Casually make teleportation circles without charging a meaningful fraction of a national budget?"

"Nope and don't even know what that means. Damn. There's probably something, but--oh. Hm. I could de-age people, I think I saw enough old people that that's not redundant, at least."