"No doubt, but the specific clouds were ephemeral and the painting is as close as I'll get to seeing them."

Sophie nods.

"Clouds changing all the time is both one of their best and worst traits."

"Do clouds have any middling traits?"

Sophie has to think about that one for a bit.

"It's hard to see when you're inside one."

"Is it hard to breathe too or only to see?"

"Just hard to see, breathings easy even if it's cold."

When the second batch of stirfry is ready Haru goes to have a forkful.

Sophie does as well.

"Oh, it's not so terrible this time!"

"Maybe you'd really like it with soy sauce. I think it's okay given that limitation."

"And hopefully everyone will be impressed that I know someone foreign or something. My mother seemed to think so at least."

"Delighted to be of service."

"Yes.Thank you for being of that." Is Sophie doing manners correctly.

Absolutely.

Oh, there's a pause in the conversation. This means there can be a new topic and it is going to be downbursts - a phenomenon where wind goes straight down from a cloud to the ground in a strong gust. They can look like twisters from a distance and can be strong enough to destroy stuff but they are different from twisters in that they don't twist and also Sophie has seen one. 

She's very cute.

Sure. Did he know that you can get horizontal vortex sort of things from the downbursts after they make contact with the ground and get pushed outwards? They aren't very strong, but they are pretty and not mentioned in any book, except maybe Sophie will write a book that includes them when she doesn't have to spend so much time on parties.

"You should definitely write at least one book, you know more about weather than anyone else I've ever met."

"It's hard to find the time because I need to do party things and also read books. London has a lot of people with weather books I haven't read before except it's usually at most one or two in any person's library so I keep needing to check different libraries to find new ones."

"Well, I wish you luck in finding them all."

The one she's reading right now about a big storm in the far east is actually really particularly good, like most weather books are. It was strong enough to pick up boulders according to the author and also the eye of the storm had rainbows which she's never heard about being in a storm's eye before. Also it affected a war which isn't very interesting except for how it made the author write the book. 

"A typhoon?"

"Yes!"

"Those are basically the same thing as hurricanes, if I recall correctly, just over the Pacific rather than the Atlantic."

"Oh! I wasn't sure they were because there's less writing about the east but I suspected. I wish we got some here except without all the horrible parts I guess. Does Narnia get typhoons?"

"No, we're on a tremendous lake, not an ocean."