She is, in fact. And looks moderately pleased with herself.

"Meditation go well?"

"Quite well, thank you. This dagger will be very useful."

"Good! We explored some. Main highlight was the library, honestly."

"Find any particularly interesting books?"

"Some!" She describes the arcana, history, and planes books, noting the description of the local neighborhood is different from what they've encountered so far.

All the planes previously known to her run on more-or-less the same set of magical rules. She's never heard of anything as exotic as where Mora and the others come from. It may be that this set of planes is something like a cluster or buds off a single plane, and they come from other clusters.

That does seem possible - though it also then begs the question of why Mora and the Keres' worlds share an early history, despite having different magic systems... Planes that budded or clustered and then fractured, perhaps?

Possibly! They are on the cusp of a fascinating new field of study.

She laughs. "Maybe while the Keres and Hisame are busy we can start an actual survey and not a chaos speed run."

"I'll look into customizing a plane shift spell, shall I?"

She grins. "That'd be great!"

"I'll need as many details of your worlds as you can give me."

She has pretty thorough details about her world, and has ever talked with Hisame about Hisame's, but the Keres' world is a bit of a mystery to her other than apparently sharing some history with her own.

Eliana can shed some light there, as well as about her own world.

Elatra takes notes.

Modifying such a spell is no easy task. In her breaks, she continues teaching Eliana and Mora the arcane arts, and they come to a basic competency.

And then, the spell is ready.

Good!

Somehow without Hisame and the Keres along, surveying the worlds is actually astonishingly uneventful. Amazing, that. Still, it's scientifically fascinating, and the worlds do indeed vary dramatically the farther they go. Similar or identical magic systems are often clustered, but there's also a few cases of similar world histories with divergent magic, often not clustered.

The next place they land is a bit odd - it's vibrant, the air heavy and the sun oddly present. Large mushrooms grow at twisted angles from a swamp, the surface of the water slick.

There's also the sound of pitched combat from over a nearby hill, towards where a massive cliff rises to block their view.

"Charming place."

"Shall we take a look at the battle?"

"Possibly from a distance, though if it looks beatable it might be good for Eliana and I to get some arcane practice."

Off to see who is fighting about what.

A teenaged girl, laughing as she ducks the swings of a giant, a glinting knife darting out as she dances in, then a glowing shield blocking the giant's swing. There's humanoid bodies scattered around, some fresher than others. The girl and the giant are the only ones standing.

Ellayania, in a vial around Mora's neck, will be able to identify her as the same sort of person as Mora and Hisame.

"Another new face. Should we help, do you think?"

It's unclear if she's winning, given that the giant - made of stitched together corpses inscribed with bloody runes - might have always looked like that, and its blows shake the ground whenever it misses her. A fine sheen of sweat has built up over her, and she's not using magic at every available opportunity.