"I don't know how to do a thing that catches reflections the way quartz crystals catch what magic looks like. There might not be a thing like that."

"I suppose it's not possible to give yourself the ability using the reflections of the crystals."

"I wouldn't know how."

"I may come up with similar suggestions in the future since I'm imperfectly comprehensive of how your magic works."

"Okay."

"Is the method you use for manipulating reflections similar to holding onto them? If for some reason you were teleported away while working with a reflection, could you potentially keep ahold of it or would you automatically lose it?"

"It's a lot like holding them... I'm not sure, but I think I might keep the part I was holding right then. Not the rest though."

Kanimir nods and takes a small notebook out and notes this down. "Unicorn herds are common, and I imagine those snakes are less so but most likely they wouldn't be difficult to find or contain once you know about them and bring magic to bear on the problem, and I seriously doubt anyone would object to their sudden absence, and there are fairy cities--but trying to get large numbers of phoenixes in one place sounds...difficult."

"I might only need a few phoenixes, if I had lots of everything else..."

"That makes it easier, but still not totally trivial."

"Yes."

He scribbles some more things down on his notepad.

Riya examines some more things. (There are so many things.)

There are! Some plants with really large sugar-sink roots that are charmed to be exceedingly nutritious and some berries that have a gamut of flavors from sugary-sweet to lemon-sour depending on the temperature, and a water bird that has a really large liver for some reason, and a kind of moss that leeches harmful substances from the air, and a kind of tree that, if it grows large enough (which it will not do without the application of a little extra magic of the type that one fairy and whoever was connected to the grass had) will form an internal hollow accessible only by the person who fed it the magic.

What an interesting tree. It would be neat if she could make these sorts of things. Maybe if she goes near the right sort of fairy.

Well, that one fairy back with the unicorn herd was that sort of fairy...

Well, then maybe she will see one again. It seems likely. But right now she is more interested in finding out about the many delightful things in this forest.

That shrub over there blooms polychromatic flowers after it's rained. That evergreen over there has little hollows in its branches that will close if you put something in them and grow much more aggressive needles around the area, only relaxing the spines and re-opening when the original person who placed the object reaches for it. That catlike thing over there is gravid. That songbird has twelve different songs corresponding to the twelve hours of the a.m., and singing one of them to it in the evening will make it sing the same one at the correct hour of the morning.

Gravid cats are not very interesting. The rest of those things are reasonably interesting!

"This forest looks like it is full of made things."

"Most forests in Fairyland are."

"Fairies make a lot of things, it seems like."

"The ability to create interesting things with magic is considered an essential skill for the fey nobility. In many cases, where the nobles have relevant magic, this means creating new life-forms."

"It would be interesting to have that."

"Potentially doable."

She smiles.