"I landed in a city - I didn't catch the name but I remember some of the building's names, you might be able to figure out where I was. I keep some trade goods with me in case I find myself somewhere that doesn't take my coin - I have storage magic - and spent the day looking for someplace to sell some of them, but I couldn't find anything, and it turned out that I couldn't teleport back to the space station, so I went to a library and found a book with pictures of forests that I could teleport to, to sleep in. That's usually allowed, in my world."

"What were the buildings? And I'd like to see the storage magic."

He names a few of London's landmarks, taking a folded piece of black cloth from one of the pouches on his belt as he does so. When he opens it up and lays it on the floor, the fabric shimmers and resolves into a hole leading down to a rough stone-walled room, the size of a small bedroom, full of shelves and baskets and a clothes rack all laden with miscellaneous objects.

"You were in London, sounds like. Wow! Can I go in?"

"If you have any storage magic yourself you should leave it outside, it reacts badly to that. But otherwise, sure." He takes off his own belt and sets it safely back from the edge before gesturing for George to go first.

"I don't have any." In he goes. "I'm going to want to get a photographer in here."

"I'll want you to explain what that is first, I think." He climbs down after him. "It's not really meant for guests, I'm afraid - this section is mundane trade goods, this shelf is magic components and that one is mostly potions and scrolls - spells stored to be cast later - and magic items and things I collect for friends are mostly in the back. And then coin and my wardrobe and things, here by us."

"What do the magic things do?"

"It'd be faster to talk about my magic system as a whole, if you want an idea of the types of things it can do. If you're looking for something to try, I have a walking stick that makes it hard to attack you, or rings that improve jumping and climbing skill, or I think I still have a cloak that makes you easy to overlook."

"The rings sound interesting."

"This way, then." He leads him to the back, picking his way through the baskets on the floor, and checks the labels on the dozen or so rings on a stand on a shelf until he finds what he's looking for, identifying them before turning them over.

George tries jumping with the jumping ring!

The intuitions the ring offers are pretty obvious, and he gets about a foot more of height than he normally would.

"Amazing." He puts the ring back and goes out of the storage space. "What can you tell me about prospects of more visitors from your world?"

"I'm sure Fharlanghn is working on it; I have no idea how long it will take him."

"No idea at all, not even - general order of magnitude?"

He considers. "More likely within my lifetime than beyond that - it's unusual that he sent me here without warning, and that might be because whatever let him do it is a rare phenomenon and he can't usually contact you. Having me here gives him more of a connection to the place, and I don't think he would have sent me here like this if he didn't expect it to be useful somehow. But that still doesn't tell us if the next visitor will be next week or in fifty years, even if I'm right about it."

"And - I'd guess your age but I can't begin to guess what kind of lifestyle effects you're looking at. Do you happen to know it in Earth years?"

"Early sixties - the translation should handle it just fine. Clerics with as much magic as I have rarely die of anything but old age, I can expect to live to a hundred pretty easily."

"The magic's good for healing?"

He nods. "Clerics are known for it."

"Do you happen to know how it differs from what angels do?"

"I don't know much about your angels - the translation is giving me a word for a type of being from my world that I think is unrelated - but I think what I do might be a little more comprehensive. I can cure infections directly, for example, or counteract poison. And I can raise the dead, under some circumstances, though it's very expensive."

"- expensive in what?"

"Diamonds, traditionally, as an offering to the gods. It's also a more advanced spell, I can only cast it a few times a day."