Ah. How... practical.

The authorities here don't execute people for practicing the wrong kind of magic.

Yes, I figured that much from your reaction to the very concept.

Although if you wanted to watch him while I searched his stuff that'd be great, actually.

Okay! Should I do anything if he wakes up? I could bind a sleep spell or swing something heavy at him.

A sleep spell is less likely to give him brain damage than blunt force trauma is, right?

Yeah.

Let's go with that one, then.

He starts describing the effect of the spell and its target in plain language and binding the spell to it.

Edie does not speak his language! She therefore does not know this is exactly what he's doing, but she trusts that he knows what he's doing.

She and her sister start going through his things--mostly his papers, but also the other miscellaneous objects he has down here.

After about a minute or so, he casts the spell—and now the guy is under for a good long while.

When this telepathy spell runs out, can we start using yours? I have a limited amount of magic and have not yet explored ways of renewing it in this world.

Yep, we can totally do the thing I tried to do when you first showed up.

Look, you're pretty but I wasn't about to use that as a basis to judge what you wanted to do with the weird mind tentacle thing!

Your judgement is sound! And yet, I am still amused.

Oh shut up.

We'll see. So how much longer is this spell likely to last?

It'll last exactly one hour from the moment I cast it.

We should probably check how precisely your hours match ours, if there's any way to do that, at some point, but that's a precise enough measure for now. I'll cast again then.

It's even more bizarre that we have the same concept for that. Sixty minutes, sixty seconds each? One second being—this?

Yeah, that's about right.

Why would our completely different cultures and magical traditions have the same time divisions?

I really don't know.

He sighs. Well. Dude's knocked out, won't wake up for a good long while.

That's good.

Found it.