"Good, because I've been doing almost nothing but meal planning for a while now. Did you like everything okay, I didn't carefully look up what plants have made it to Europe yet or anything when considering spice profiles but I did try to keep it all relatively accessible."

"Everything tasted wonderful."

"Oh good. You can be on a pretty much unrestricted diet at this point, assuming you aren't concealing any symptoms."

"I feel healthy. - might have a hard time if I had to do any work, because I haven't done any in so long, but other than that."

"That's most likely just lack of exercise. D'you wanna go for a walk?"

"What, just for fun?"

"Sure, do people not take walks to go look at scenery and stretch their legs in this year? Even if they're not performing farm labor and getting around in general on foot?"

"Not really? Sometimes you go visit people."

"You know what I should bring in to the ambient faery technology situation? Bicycles."

"What're those?"

He pulls up a picture of one for her to watch flicker. "These things. They require some materials that are currently inconvenient to source in the environment to work really well and won't be invented for some time, but you sit astride 'em like a horse, there's a learning curve on how to balance but there's variants with three wheels that are easier if less able to handle miscellaneous terrain, and you push the pedals there with your feet. Doesn't leave a lot of conspicuous infrastructure lying around, doesn't require fuel, goes at the speed of the rider unlike I'd imagine an airplane or something would."

" - huh. Women can't sit astride horses, though."

"Is that because you don't wear pants or do you have some other reason to imagine that's the case?"

"I just know women who ride horses have to sit on them sideways. I don't know why, I've never had a riding horse."

"It's the pants thing, as I understand it, and bicycles can be constructed so you can ride them in a skirt if you object strenuously to pants."

"Huh! - and I bet future people do not object to women wearing pants."

"Yup! Other way around takes longer though."

" - they do object to men wearing dresses?"

"Oh, not by 2159 they don't, but there was a lag of a couple hundred years."

"Huh. 

I guess if you have a way for women not to have babies then they can just be - weaker men - and maybe there's no cause to object to that really - but men still can't be women -"

"- how much future shock do you want, exactly, here?"

"I'm not going to live to this winter so I'm not sure any of it matters but I don't mind hearing about the strange future people's opinions."

"You'll still be around, you'll wind up in Limbo," he points out. "Anyway, there's medicine you don't even need magic for that can with varying quality of results make people look like the opposite sex, some people - in both directions, as it happens - feel motivated to do that, once surgery isn't a hilariously stupid thing to do for anything short of gangrene it's possible to follow up with some of that for closer results still, and then summoning gets pretty common and this sort of person can swap physical characteristics around as thoroughly as they might wish up to and including becoming capable of pregnancy."

"Huh. - and people still get angry about them wearing dresses? If you can get pregnant I think you are a woman whatever you started as."

"The thing about wearing dresses was already underway at the time summoning got popular and then the remaining opposition to people wearing whatever they wanted didn't last very long."