"I wonder if wizards could find potential in your world's people, then, if somebody invented a spell for it."

"Might be doable, but we'd need some work to convince people they're not just metamancers in disguise or something."

"Oh, wizardry doesn't work in other worlds so people wouldn't be able to check in your world."

"It doesn't—oh, right, the reservoir. Yeah, makes sense."

"That's why, yeah."

"Another thing I was wondering about is shrens."

"What's a - oh, those - what about them?"

"Well I kinda wanna take a look at one? Read a book that said no one knows why they happen so I kinda want to see if I can find out."

"They wind up in institutions, I think, so it shouldn't be too hard to find a bunch of them all together."

"Mmhm. I'll go visit once I'm more—acquainted with the world."

"That makes sense. What things do you need to shop for?"

"Clothes, I guess, and basic stuff like bed sheets and toiletries."

"That all?"

"I guess? Do you have suggestions?"

"Not really, just didn't know what you might want besides that."

"...I might want something magical? If people sell magical stuff? To stare at."

"There's tons of magical stuff, yeah, do you care what it is?"

"Not really? More than one thing, that all do different things, and are all wizardly, would be better."

"So like a waterspout and a communication crystal and some link paper maybe?"

"Yeah, sounds good. What's a waterspout and link paper?"

"Waterspouts make water and link paper if you write on one pad it appears on the other."

"Cool. Probably different enough, yep."

"And in your room the lights and the ward are magic and you can look at those. And the lift."

"Yeah, I figured, just wanted more examples."

They hit city limits and she finds him a store with men's clothes.