"I will tell you anyway and let you ask another. Numbering the questions is a way to have something concrete to point to when saying I'm done. The timeframe is slightly more - findable. Slightly. Not today, within three years. Sadde will do her best to help you, but violence will only make it worse. Your brother is not involved."

He lets out a breath he didn't know he was holding.

"Okay. Okay, that's good, I guess. Other questions I have in mind would be how long this should last, and whether anyone else is involved." She says this looking at Terel.

He repeats the question about length. The centaur sips tea.

"...Potential for this event builds in the background before exploding. Once it is upon you, the worst of it will be over within a week, possibly shorter. But it will take several months to smooth over entirely. And that is all I can tell you about it."

"Okay. Thank you."

Terry regards the centaur with narrowed eyes. "As long as I'm here, any other obvious standouts?"

"Just one more thing, and let me indulge my dramatic side at least once: 'Look by the mountain to find treasure'. Something you will need at some point will be near a mountain."

"Okay. Thanks, I guess."

She smiles at the centaur, then looks at Terel again. "So, er, I guess I should bring you back to your class and leave you alone for the rest of the day, then?"

"To class yes, but no point to being alone and thinking now. I'm gonna turn. Centaur said so. Either I accept it now or I accept it later, all that's left is figuring out when. So much for my sense of agency, eh?"

"Erm. I'm sorry."

He waves his hand. "I was leaning that way anyway. Let's just move on. After class I wanna show you how to carve golems, we can try the whole dynamic memory system."

"Okay."

So she can carry him, yes?

Yep.

To breakfast, then to class. Terel's late. Sadde should probably not try to sit in the auditorium for it as long as she's not actually a student.

Yeah no she'll just—fly again. And maybe it's not super healthy to not-do anything but she's still a bit—shaken. So yeah. She'll be flying around, very high.

And then the hour of class is up and they can go to the student golem workshops. Guests are perfectly allowed if they have a decent reason, sign in, and Terel agrees to pay for it if they break anything.

Awesome! She can definitely pay him back—or will, eventually. She probably should, like, actually progress in making some money instead of just basking in Terel's glory all day long.

Well, first, they can buy a few premade memory tablets and try to actually work out the assigning system.

Two or three hours working at it, then he's got another class, then lunch. She could start working on money then?

Yes that's probably a good idea. When he goes to class, she kisses him goodbye and starts exploring.

What-all does this town have that could be useful to her biomatter generation plans?

Some enchantment and potion assembly labs and workshops. Enchantment and potion departments, at the university. Construction firms, a significantly smaller shipyard than Windvale's. Apothecaries. Various art shops and crafted goods stores selling things like furniture or tableware, which do feature significant stocks of wooden items.

Hmmm and which seem like they'll pay the most per unit volume produced?

Rare enchantment supplies are definitely the most valuable per unit mass. But there's a demand cap on those, and she has no reputation here so negotiating to supply to this world's silicon valley equivalent might be an iffy prospect.

Art shops or furniture stores are kind of a happy medium. They don't need to trust her abilities and will pay more than bulk rate for assembled items.

Construction and shipyard seem by far easiest to negotiate with. Especially the slightly sketchier ones.

Hmm, what kind of rare enchantment supplies are we talking, here?

As examples: Queltian Mountain Toad blood. Iravia fern seeds. Pure saffron.

Hmm... Where might one find Queltian Mountain Toads and Iravia fern seeds? (If the answer is 'Queltian Mountains' and 'Iravia' she wants to know where those are.)

In a distributors' warehouse, or for some of the less extremely rare ones in the campus supplies storerooms.

Oh! Is there one around here or does she have to go to Windvale or some other big city because that's much better than expected.

There's actually one here but there is no way she is getting in without breaking in or a hefty bribe. It's probably supposed to be a secret where it even is.