"Newfound appreciation?"

"Thunder Plains."

"Oh? What are they like?"

"Dark, foggy, fiend-infested, large, filled with lightning."

He grins. "I heard it was very pretty."

"It was… quite shocking."

He starts giggling. "We'd better be ready for it, I guess."

"Any convenient spells to give you lightning resistance? … Or places we can buy clothing for it?"

"Yes to both, we've been shoring up on magic defence to deal with the Plains."

"Seems wise. There are a lot of fiends, and other than a few lightning rods along the way, it's quite dangerous."

"You should probably also learn some magic."

"Yeah," he agrees. "Some sort of ranged attack that I don't have to be ingenious about, that'd be convenient."

"Ooor defence, 'cause you know, being thunder'd on sounds unpleasant."

(Fiends!)

"I mean, I decided on rubber – an insulator, not sure if you have it – and metal, which seemed to work okay."

"Oh. I guess that makes sense, with your magic."

"This was after chancing it for a while, since that sort of prevented me from flying."

"Magic defence seems better, then."

"Yeah, probably," he agrees. "Depends on what's available, though."

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know what magical defenses are available," he shrugs.

"Magical defence is a fundamental category."

"Oh, right, and the lightning counts as magic to defend against." Shrug. "Weird mechanics."

"Thunder Plains lightning does."

Nod. "Magic defense sounds like a good idea, then – do you have one of the spheres for that?"

"Magic spheres are the ones you use for this," she says, offering Theo one.