"...does thinking you're cute preclude that?"

"I think so? People think I'm cute because I'm a kid which is also why they don't take me seriously?"

"...I mostly think you're cute because you're short and excitable and look like a child rather than because I was inferring things about how long you've been around, but you should be advised that being very concerned about exactly how old people think you are is also childlike behavior."

"...that's sorta unfair."

"Is it?"

"Yeah, obviously. It doesn't have anything to do with how seriously you should take people."

"Whether parsing somebody as a child should make you take them less seriously is a separate question from whether caring a lot if your exact age is accounted for should cause you to parse as a child."

"I guess, but if the reason children care about their age is that people don't take them seriously and then this gets counted against them it feels like double-counting."

"Yeah, fair enough."

"And you can start teaching Materia magic - it's really useful - I think there're people working out rollout procedures for magic in places where there're sources other than Maiar -"

Ferardrin?

The Plane of Chaos has lots of things happen but none of them are predictable from any things that have previously happened and there is no reason to expect that answering the voice in his head would have any effect because nothing has any effect because effect does not exist at all. 

She can tell the difference between "not there" and "not replying". Ferardrin, my name's Bella and I'm a friend of your family's -

That is an unusually long complete sentence.

and I evacuated them from the Material Plane to a science world -

- how - can you -

...I haven't tried evacuating anyone from the plane of chaos yet, it's possible it's harder in some way. Do you have a body there?

"Found him," she murmurs.

It's hard to tell the difference between 'I have one but it can't have effects on things and my senses are not any likelier than chance to report as if they're coming from it' and 'no' -

If you don't have one my current spell won't work to extract you and once I have one that does I'll need a separate one to attach you to a new body, this could take a while to develop.

...develop?

Science world. I can almost certainly come up with the spells but it'll take some work.

That's amazing. Uh - I like the talking, it is - likelier than chance that certain words would follow other ones, could someone maybe talk to me while you're - developing spells, can you tell me how that works -

Yes, I'm using an artifact to talk to you and I can hand it off to somebody who wouldn't be of use in spell development to keep that up. How do you want to trade off speed at getting out against getting a description of spell development in a science world sooner?

I wanna know how it works so when you get me I can do it -

I'll hand off the earwire soon for the time being, anyway, someone else can give you the basic introduction and teach you a language or something. Uh, in addition to being a friend of your family's I also know a lot of alternate universe versions of you and them.