"Invented an analysis for it, but I'm only two iterations in so it's not a very good analysis."

"Iterations?"

"I use what I know about the magic I want to look at to come up with a clumsy analysis that shows me that, and then use what I can see to refine the spell."

"Okay I really want a channelling capacity, now."

"Unsolved problem," says Kaylo, "we don't even know what channeling capacities are, not really - but a lot of people barely use theirs, you could probably find someone willing to have it poked easier than you could find a dragon willing to play around with our capacity to use language."

"Yeah no, way your magic looks I'd probably not want to touch that until I knew way more about it."

"Thanks," says Kaylo dryly.

He grins. "I might gain from looking at other dragons now, actually."

"Other color groups or just checking for individual differences?"

"Both. This is information I could theoretically get from just staring at you, probably, but watching the magic... flex, or move, in a way, helps a lot understand what's what."

"We could go outside and I could breathe some fire."

"—of course dragons can breathe fire. Yes, do let's."

"You couldn't tell by looking, huh?" Kaylo leads the way to an exit.

He kinda enjoyed it more when Kaylo was dragging him. "Eventually I'd have been able to, but I was looking at other stuff."

"Which bits?"

"The language bits, mostly, although all your magic is pretty connected."

"Package deal. Do mind," he shifts, "that the red group thing is fire, so you'll probably want to compare against someone of another color group."

"I am ready to be bowled over."

"I wasn't planning to do elaborate performance art, it'll just affect how the magic looks probably," says Kaylo, and then he cranes his neck back and opens his jaws toward the sky and breathes a plume of garnet flame.

"But given that I'd literally never seen a giant flying lizard breathe fire: wow."

"It's pretty cool," agrees Kaylo, snapping his teeth shut on the fire to resume talking.

"What's the difference between red groups and others when it comes to fire?"

"We can get it hotter and farther and have better fine control over it - nothing outright pyrokinetic, more like, I can do a thinner line of it," he demonstrates, "a non-red-group would probably not be able to narrow it any farther than," demo. "The unusuals and uniques do get pyrokinetic. Oh, we also have better fire resistance - no dragon's going to be hurt stepping on a campfire but red-groups like curling up in bonfires and the others don't, say, I'd be cozy swimming around in the sun."

"Do you keep the fire resistance in other shapes?"

"No. Any dragon could turn into a firebird and those're all the same."