This isn't where Raafi went to sleep. He'd set his bedroll up on a comfy patch of moss under a tree, and now - he still has the bedroll, at least, and his pack, but the tree and moss are nowhere to be seen, replaced by a strange metal room with still, stuffy air and an implausibly clear night sky out the window.
"Hello?" he calls, getting to his feet.
"We closed a loophole for abusing the principle of leverage! It would never have come up but it's nice to have things tidy. Tomás is writing a progress report now while one of his assistants works on proliferating the change to wherever it applies. How are you doing?"
"Good!" she grins. "No particular plans for the rest of my day but I'm sure I'll come up with something."
Nothing happens, and she chuckles. "I hadn't cast yet, most people have trouble touching something they know is going to hurt." She does, then, and her fingertips take on a weak purple glow. "Okay, go ahead."
One short-lasting papercut's worth of unpleasantness.
"You can scratch me! So can a kitchen knife, though, do you have the bigger one -"
"Mmhmm!" She casts again; the glow is stronger this time, but it doesn't do any more damage when he touches it.
"I am tentatively indestructible against magic!" he chirps as the cut closes.
"Good!," Kat grins. "I was thinking about it while I was away, and the other thing you really want to test is how our antimagic affects you. It's not common, that's why it didn't come to mind before, but it seems like that could be really bad if it does affect you."
"It'll definitely show up to divination if it's anything like that bad, but if you'd rather, certainly. I'll have to wait until Raafi comes back to see if he can do it or if we need to find a wizard."
"That's good. We do have some magic that helps, but it's very rare - there's a spell that Chaav's boys can get that makes a potion that eases depression, at most one vial a day, and it takes specific circumstances to cast it successfully. It does sometimes bring someone out of it permanently with only a few doses, but not reliably, it's very frustrating."
"Oh, that's really good, that'll help a lot - we have antidepressants but some people just don't get anywhere with them even if they try twenty kinds, there's probably gains from trade if some people on potions go on those and some people who can't use antidepressants get potions even if potion production can't scale well."
"That definitely sounds worth a try. We don't usually try to keep someone on ambrosia if half a dozen doses don't work, it's just not sustainable, antidepressants will be a big help there. And maybe Chaav will take a liking to Revelation and we'll have enough of his clerics to have enough of it around at least for emergencies."
"Hopefully! Anyway that's the only really odd thing I came up with - we know divinations can see you," she starts counting the schools on her fingers as she mentions them, "otherwise I wouldn't be able to understand you, but we might want to see if they can target you or if you're resistant to that, and we can check how illusions react to you, but neither of those are dangerous if they go the bad way, especially. And then conjuration and evocation aren't any more dangerous than necromancy - Inflict spells are necromancy, and evocation is like conjuration but for energy instead of matter - and it's pretty rare to see transmutation used offensively at all, but we can check those out... and then enchantments we know about - that's the mind-affecting stuff - and abjurations mostly aren't dangerous at all, but antimagic is one, so that'll work for that. I suppose we can check whether they can detect things about you but I'd expect that to go the same way divination does."
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