"I'm glad you landed on us instead of the other way around, then." 

"Eh, if you'd landed on my planet somebody who studies ancient Chinese would have been rustled up from the nearest university."

"That wouldn't help much with talking to anyone else, though." 

"That's true. But while I am stuck in this general region, my world has flying vehicles that seat hundreds, and you could have hopped on one and gone to China wherever you landed."

"Flying vehicles that seat hundreds?"

"Yes. Don't expect them out of Shan Village any time soon, they require a lot of manufacturing capacity."

"I can't even imagine what that would look like! Probably not an enormous sword but that's absolutely what I'm imagining." 

"Metal capsule with rigid wings."

"Huh," he says, imagining something that looks more like an ovoid golden snitch than an airplane. 

She cannot telepathically communicate in images yet. "I have become tolerable at sketching if you want an idea of what stuff looks like. Not even stuff exclusive to my world, necessarily, we've also got enough ability to move around for me to have seen animals native to other continents and the ocean."

"Ooh! How weird do the animals get?"

"The ones from the bottom of the ocean are wild! And some of them are just really cool and not like anything nearby, like giraffes, which are sort of like deer but can be literally twenty feet tall."

"Like--deer on stilts?"

"Most of it's neck! They do also have very long legs though."

"Wow." 

"This sort of thing is why I'm so excited for someone to learn to travel here! Not just because I miss pizza but because you should get to see giraffes."

(Lan Wangji quietly fantasizes about taking Wei Ying to see a zoo.)

"We probably have giraffes in this world somewhere."

"Yes but you have neither airplanes nor cameras so how will you ever see one? Swordsurf five thousand miles?"

"Why not? Aside from not having a sword right now." This body actually has a tiny underdeveloped golden core so all the reasons he had for not using his before don't really apply. 

(Lan Wangji, who knows about the part where Wei Wuxian refused to touch Suibian between developing demonic cultivation and his death, but doesn't know the reason, silently takes note of this.)

"I wasn't under the impression people usually flew that distance! I haven't seen information of trade of even stories from other continents, I'm not even sure I've seen evidence of anything from Japan or India."

"We don't usually, but that doesn't mean we couldn't. Lots of things aren't done until they are. I thiiiiink potatoes are from somewhere else originally?"

"I was wondering about that! I didn't have a way to be sure if they were actually potatoes and just not a cultivar I've had at home or if they were some similar root vegetable. If they're from across the ocean that explains it."

"Again, I don't have a great memory and the last time I encountered one was thirteen years ago, so don't assume I know what I'm talking about."