He is, in fact, still a human and can't literally continue in this vein for two or three hours uninterrupted by breaks.

It's still lots of fun though.

Every second she spends with him is better than everything that happened before she met him, so. Sure. She agrees.

And then it's time for Terel to sleep and Sadde to do whatever.

Whatever being: grabbing magical primers and flying to Windvale. She will use her million bucks to purchase a networked crystal when she gets there so she can call Terel. She leaves a note to this effect.

The magical primer textbooks: Are nicely informative! And probably overpriced, but whatever.

She gets asked to declare herself by a disembodied voice when she gets close to Windvale.

"I'm Sadde Woods! I'm not sure there's any more info I have to give? I'm a vankire, which is a fair folk species you don't know."

"You pinged the ship detection system. You're not piloting a ship?"

"No, I'm flying with my own wings."

The voice mutters, "Thought they fixed that..." And more loudly. "Alright. Please stay below 5000 feet while in Windvale general airspace and don't approach the main docks area while airborne. You'll hit the detector again and get a verbal heads-up if you approach the limits, and you could be fined or jailed if you violate this rule. And have a nice day."

"Will do, thanks!"

First things first: networked crystal.

That crystal shop in that one mall had some! There are dozens other stores that probably also have them, and there are two main competing carrier networks: Charlescomm and Liegere Connect.

Differences?

Liegere Connect has better coverage on this continent, even in the Reaches and other deep wilderness. Widely regarded as a great deal, much cheaper than Charlescomm.

Charlescomm is a huge international corporation - they have coverage on almost a hundred continents, though intercontinental calls are pretty expensive. They focus on business connections, not personal. They're also more expensive in general and have a reputation for charging for every little thing. They are fast, responsive, adaptable, and reliable. If you have the money for it.

Is 'the money for it' in the order of, like, hundreds or thousands of Kava or...?

High-end but ridiculously good VIP-level service for one individual runs at about seven thousand per month.

Eh. That's cool, then, she can deal with that. She won't get the ridiculously good VIP-level service, though, just something that'll let her call people when she wants to and is reasonably good.

They try to upsell pretty hard. The only upsell attempt she might actually need sooner or later is the Liegere tie-in which will net her coverage without quite as many speed and uptime guarantees on most of the continent.

Sure, she can get that one.

And her call crystal itself, a fancy one, or a really fancy one?

(The guy yawns, not used to upselling so early in the morning)

What's the actual difference between the variously fancy ones?

Projection feature for video calls! Onboard phone book so she doesn't have to call the directory! Shortened charge cycle! Durability enchantments!

Price differences?

1200-2800, with options in between if she only needs one of the listed features.

Oh fine she'll get the snazziest one.

Excellent choice! Sign here and make an advance payment for the first month and there you go it should come online some time in the next hour make sure to come back if you have any problems ma'am.