"Yes."

"And they all have about the same amount of trouble, but they don't have trouble with the same things, exactly?"

"Not exactly, no."

DZ nods. "She can't change how much trouble they have, yet, but she'll be able to change which things they have trouble with soon."

"Oh. I guess that might be useful for some of them."

    "She'll be able to do more as she learns more about it."

"It'd be more useful for greenmages, probably, if you can make them lose stuff from later instead of stuff from earlier in the progression," the attendant says. Tse Witwex nods.

    "She'll be able to do that, yes. Not today, but maybe next time, if you have examples for her to look at."

"That's next," says Tse Witwex.

    "That will help too, but she'll need to see people with the kinds of dwindling you'd prefer, and people without that kind of dwindling."

"I think that's as much different people being different as it is the dwindling being different," says the bluemage's attendant.

    "A little bit, yes. It won't be a problem; she's trained in this kind of thing."

"I thought magic was completely different where you're from," comments Tse Witwex.

    "It is, Ma'am, but minds are the same. More the same here than she's trained for, even; the place we're from has more types of people."

"Types of people?" asks Tse Witwex.

"Yes Ma'am. I don't know if you have the right sort of word for what she means - people who are different from the kind of person you're used to in the same way that different kinds of animals are different from each other."

"I don't think we do have a word for that, no."

"Our word is alien, for that kind of person."

"All right then."

    "How much time do we have before the greenmage is ready for us, Ma'am?"

"Another hour, longer if the client is late."

"May Deskyl use the courtyard again?"

"Yes."

She goes through a few lightsaber katas, this time, before settling in to meditate again.

A few mage children with their attendants watch her curiously.