Nod nod.

Teleport!

...In this new place, there is an enormous dome overhead, so clear that it might be difficult to tell it was there at this distance if it weren't magical. The magic keeps the heat in, basically; it's dreadfully cold outside. Inside is a similarly magically lush environment to the forest, if somewhat more cultivated and less random. No escaped assassin snakes here.

It's good that there are no escaped assassin snakes. What other things might there be?

There is a hive of honeybees that make music with their buzzing and honey with any number of convenient linguistic properties, grass that photosynthesizes at an accelerated rate, those same flowers from before with the larynx nectar, some of those lesser phoenixes from earlier, and several unicorns, including one right in front of them mounted by a girl who looks to be in her late teens or early twenties who has the same immortality as the man with the unicorn herd, as well as a much greater version of his plant abilities, something similar with animals, and some more magic that would take a bit longer to puzzle out.

Magic!

"Hello! My name is Alcallah far Rannsi vai ten Drask Uraeh"--the name is superimposed, somehow, with the translation--Alcallah out of Rannsi of the Deep South--"and Mother says you have a magic project I'm to help you with!"

"Oh." She smiles. "Hello. My name is Riya. I want to do things with magic."

"Doing things with magic is great! What things do you want to do with magic how?"

...She looks at Kanimir, hoping he can explain better.

"She has magic which can copy other forms of magic. Since arriving in Fairyland she has acquired immortality from a fairy, a healing touch from a unicorn, regeneration from a Greater Phoenix, and miscellaneous other effects from miscellaneous other organisms. She wishes to duplicate your talents, and potentially your assistance could be useful for a project to distribute immortality to humans."

"Wow. Okay, do I need to do anything?"

"Do you have more unicorns? And maybe a Greater Phoenix? And anything that has a magic that's optional, like the pretty glowing moths or the terrible invisible snakes?"

"...Terrible invisible snakes?"

"In that other forest there were invisible venomous snakes. But only sometimes invisible. They could be invisible when they felt like it. It was a useful thing to copy but I don't like that there are those snakes."

"There are not any of those snakes here. We have a few phoenixes, though. You might have to elaborate more on the 'only sometimes' requirement."

...She looks at Kanimir again. Does Kanimir know what she's talking about?

"She wants something that can be voluntarily activated and deactivated, as opposed to being reliant upon outside conditions or time passing to change."

"Okay, um, we probably have something like that but I might have to think about it for a minute..."

"It's useful to have that because I might not want to make everyone I ever touch be healed and very immortal," says Riya. "Oh - I wonder if you have things that would be better than unicorns for this? Unicorns do healing when they touch someone with their horns, but if you have something that can do a thing from farther away, that might work better. And if it's from farther away then I might not need to add in the optionalness part separately because it might be already optional."

"...Could you use my ability to do stuff with plants?"

"Hm?"

"You were going to copy my botanical talent, right? It's purely voluntary, and a doing-things-to-things kind of thing."

"Oh - that's clever," she says. "It might be harder because it's not very simple, and I'd be trying to copy your fairy immortality too... but it might still be easier than trying to put the thing together from unicorns and an optionalizer."

"What's a unicorn's magic like?"

"It's... like itself. They have magic to make their fur shiny and to make them heal anyone they touch with their horns. But the healing isn't just in the horns, it's in the rest of the unicorn too, it just sort of goes... through the horn."