"I did not!"

"He didn't, but he said that you had it too?"

"We do, yeah," he glances at Heri, "But we probably shouldn't teach you if your teachers haven't taught you yet. We weren't allowed to learn until we were th- twelve." 

"Wow, how old are you?"

"Eighteen - if that seems like a lot, your world might have different year lengths than ours, or we might grow at different speeds," he adds. 

"That's a lot, yeah! We're only two and a half."

"Ah, human years are shorter. But you are probably still too little."

"Aw, really? We can trade for it! We've got... magic plants and glowing and heating and cooling crystals..." He sighs, "I guess it's not a lot compared to crystal magic."

"We're going to learn it eventually, Mika," Sefoni points out.

...Also, she really wishes he'd stop offering people their plants.

Heri seizes the opportunity. "It's not, but tells us more of what your magic plants can do? Could they help find people? Or hide people?"

"They can hide people, but I don't know about finding. We haven't read much of the recipe book, yet." 

"There's a spell that does it, though. Do you guys need help finding someone?"

"Uh, maybe."

"I told them how our Earth has monsters. But I guess we might not go back there."

"Oh, right. Yeah."

"It's a bit of a lost cause," Tobir agrees, not showing any of his internal panic over his lack of knowledge about that particular world. He didn't spend a lot of time with most of those refugees, and usually wasn't talking about their horrible trauma world with them when he did.

"It's that bad?" 

"It's pretty bad, yeah. There's no one anywhere around our door for us to go back for." 

"What about your dad?" Sefoni asks, eyes big and sad. 

"He died a long time ago," Heri says bitterly.

He does not say because other clean people killed him.

"Oh... I'm sorry," she says, stricken. 

She wouldn't say that if she knew- he cuts the thought off, smiles at her, "Don't worry about it. Like he said, it was a long time ago." 

Mika's pretty sure Kenta said 'my uncle has crystal magic'. Maybe it was a different uncle, though. 

"...So... do you have crystals with powers?" He asks, trying to break the somewhat awkward mood.

"We do, we have things like crystals for protection against magical, physical effects, production of light, control over water, and a few others. We would really like something like teleportation if you have it. Or extra senses."

Head shake, "We definitely don't have teleportation. Everyone on the island would know if we got that. I dunno about extra senses... I know we've got anti-magic, that's the one the clones gave our parents and uncles and aunts..." He shrugs. He's been so busy with Nirn magic he hasn't really paid attention to the crystal magic developments.