"Riiiight."

"Hi!" the caller says, ignoring the repartee in favor of the people at the door. "Can I help you?"

"Hi! I'm new," says Belamaveth. "I'm getting a tour and your name came up as an interesting person to meet. My name's Belamaveth."

"Odette. Nice name."

"Thanks!"

"Are you a new student?"

"I don't think I'm formally enrolled, actually; Atennesi invited me here."

"Oh wow that's impressive. What for?"

"He thinks I have potential."

"Oh, cool. I guess that's probably why I came up."

"It is! Have you got any Greatness planned?"

"I want to figure out how to raise the dead. By becoming so powerful I bull right through the time limit or finding a clever workaround, either way."

"I like that plan!"

"Thank you! What about you?"

"I'm gonna go home. It doesn't have anywhere near enough mages. Way fewer than most places."

"Oh, yeah, that makes sense. I've thought about something like that, but Atennesi says it'd be a bad idea to leave Genosha until I'm much stronger. He's kinda cryptic about why, though."

"Probably a good idea to listen to him anyway."

"Yeah, he's old and wise and he runs the city well so I trust his judgment mostly. If I find out his reason and it's bad I'll ignore him but he's earned enough trust to default pretty strongly to not that."

"That's really encouraging, if everybody else thought he was a nut I'd have to start wondering whether I should trust him."

"He--saw a way to make the world better, and he took it, and he ran with it. And it's working great, or at least I think so."

"Genosha's lovely."

"Yeah!!!" 

"Have you lived here all your life?"

"Yeah, my parents moved here while Mom was pregnant with me and Illia."

"I was talking to the immigration officer about all the immigrant categories."