Food!

And then more staring at bewilderingly moving rocks.

And bewilderingly readable invisible books!

"Oh. Seriously?"

"What is it?"

"I'm not... entirely sure I'm right... but apparently they are hollow inside, and there is a way to open a door to get in... and I'm not sure about this but I have a suspicion there are one-way window enchantments in it and air renewal and basically I think this might be some form of, of tourist cruise or something."

"Huh."

"Or maybe some form of transportation but it's... really slow, there has to be some reason why it's so slow."

"Giant stone eggs as tourist cruise sounds like the kind of thing you might find trundling up and down the Godscrest."

"Really? Why?"

"It's extravagant and silly. Like a lake of gold."

"The floating cities of Teinnab might fit there, too, then."

"There's floating cities? What happens if they run out of float?"

"They fall. And they're high enough that this is a... not very pretty catastrophe."

"Given that everything runs out eventually in your magic system, I'd say that's more than just silly."

"It's the kind of ridiculous thing the ancients made and are still around. People are always recharging them and making sure they stay up. Thankfully whoever designed them at least did it efficiently, I could imagine some designs that would take several orders of magnitude more mana to keep up."

"Still. I don't know, I guess I'm just - I don't like the idea of things that can just run out like that, when it would be that bad if they did."

"Oh it's a terrible idea. Very pretty and austere and cool-looking but absurd. They're above some swamps that are hard to drain without wrecking the ecology, though, and that's the official excuse, but. Ancients."

"They could've put the cities somewhere else!"

"Then there'd be all this unoccupied area and also no cool flying cities."

"How do you get to and from the cool flying cities?"

"Cool flying busses and cars and hoverbikes."

"Cool."

"It is, but still emerged from a terrible and impractical concept. I mean, people now use flying things for transport all the time, for long journeys, but they came from there."

"Maybe what all these things are really for is getting people to invent useful things like that."