"I can't say I've heard of it doing that. Are you okay?"

The thing metaphorically squirms in her hold.

"Yes. It's still trying to get to me, I think." She "looks" at it. "I will probably be able to get it off me if I need to so I'll just—let it do its thing." She lets go.

Katur snorts. "I'm jealous, your magic is awesome."

It laches itself onto her much in the same way it's attached to Katur.

"This is gonna be terrible to get off if I ever decide to," she says, and tries casting a spell.

It works! As expected she feels the tiniest bit of physical straining, like she just lifted a heavy object.

"Congratulations."

"Okay now I need to learn everything!"

"Of course you do. Any particular focus? I don't suppose you can share your magic as well?"

"Not—mine in particular. Metamancers are... I guess you could say we have negative magic? I can't share the complete absence of a thing, like that. And the other kinds—maybe? I haven't ever been able to make it stick on anyone who hadn't been born a mage, though."

"Fair. I wonder if you can stick sorcery to anyone then... Would I count as a mage for the purpose?"

"I was using 'mage' to mean someone born with one of the other three types of magic. But I suppose it doesn't hurt to try—" She tries. "Nope. No banana."

Shrug. "I wonder if someone with sorcery gifts counts, but I don't have those because the augmentation interferes with acquiring them and my boyfriends aren't nearby."

"Boyfriends, plural?"

He blushes. "Three and they're triplets and amazing."

"D'aaaawwwwww that's adorable."

"Thanks. It's not usual for my world, but they're unusual people. They would love seeing this place."

"Well why don't you go get them? Or, hold the door while I do."

"For how long are you able to fly? It's a bit of a walk... you could just tell Aross to give them a message to come here."

"I could fly for a while, I have some mana on me. Who's Aross?"

"Employee and assistant. I run a shipping company that belongs to my family, boring job, but pays the bills. Which means they can learn magic."

He doesn't call it an honest job; it's honest now but it wasn't until he took it.

"Okay, so you could hold the door and we could call them."

"Sure, just fly out of the window into the room next to my office. Aross will be there."

He holds the door and she can open the window.

There are three...

...identical young men walking...

...towards the building.

One is holding a wicker basket.

She lands in front of them. "Hi! I'm from another universe and your boyfriend is holding the door to an interdimensional bar, wanna come?"