"They have an interesting magic," she explains. "And they keep it if I pick them. So I want to carry them around in case I can use it for something later."

"Ah. That makes sense. Would you like me to carry them for you?" He's been pulling his crystals and stuff from places that are unlikely to contain that volume of crystal, so he probably has some kind of extradimensional storage space. Also: his pockets are really definitely extradimensional storage space.

"Yes, please," says Riya.

He murmurs little flickers of preservation spells over each of them so they don't squish each other and turn his pockets into a gooey mess and sticks them inside.

"Did you find out about talking to a person?"

"I talked to multiple persons, including the fairy noblewoman I had been hoping to be introduced to subsequent to someone who was able to introduce me to her. It is fortunate that we did not attempt to visit her uninvited; she now lives in an area completely different from the one she had been when I became aware of her."

"Oh. Well, can we visit her now?"

"Yes. However, she is actually relatively busy at the moment, and has acquired a daughter in the intervening decades, and has suggested that we solicit her child's assistance with this project instead of requiring her to take time from her duties."

"That makes sense..."

"Shall we go, then?"

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."