"You got a place in mind? I don't know a lot of restaurants."

"There's a place in town that does really good gnocchi, and they have this lemon cake..." 

"I'm sold. Do we meet there...?"

"I'll give you a ride. Dinner and movie it is."

"Cool, then, I'll be waiting."

So Alistair goes through the motions.

He wakes up, goes to school-

-where he sees a familar face.

His parents had picked this town as soon as they'd suspected the cardcaptor was here, and being in the same school should have been convenient.

Alistair mostly spends the rest of class trying not to make eye contact.

And after a mildly boring day at school, Scott decides to pay the mysterious stranger a visit.

"Kero, are any of my cards going to work in a direct fight?"

"What do you mean? Windy and Fly could... The Through, too, I guess..."

"If he uses his magic against me, will just getting out of the way be enough? Windy can hold him, maybe?" 

"I don't know what kind of magic he has... but your cards are very powerful. Windy could hold him or send him away..."

Key becomes staff, boy becomes cardcaptor.

"Fly, take us to the sorcerer's house!"

And now his staff has pretty magical wings that are actually merely decorative and play no functional role in giving him lift!

They're pretty!

And flying is pretty great, even if he looks kind of ridiculous.

He lands outside a residential neighborhood.

The sorcerer's house is fairly unremarkable, as houses go.

A little big, maybe.

"Fly, return to your power confined."

The staff shrinks down, and he puts the key in his pocket.

"Should I just talk to him, or should I surprise him?"

"His house might have wards or other protections."

"Will meditation help me find out if it does?"

"I think so, but there are ways of making magic undetectable. They might not work point-blank like this."

"So my best bet is to try to find him outside the house?"

"Might be."

"Drawing him out could be dangerous, but I can't just wait for him to leave..."

The sorcerer leaves his house.

Looks like he's walking.

Scott hides, and prepares to follow in the air.

He pulls out his trusty key- that is to say, staff- and once again takes flight.