"—does yours do it? Mine can't transmit this—well, perhaps it can transmit this to other metamancers, but to non-metamancers at least it can't."

"It should."

Well he can try, can she get this completely extra sense unlike anything else she has ever experienced?

Yep. It's trippy.

Yep! It doesn't neatly translate to sight, it's clearly a metaphor when Kaede describes it, but whatever it is, it's beautiful. It has layers—or sides—or angles—or dimensions—no words can describe it, it has so many parts and you can shift points of view and wherever you look there's more, and it's not immediately obvious whether the new sense carries some sort of reinforcement mechanism or if it's just that interesting but the way Kaede is okay with spending several hours looking at it suddenly makes a lot more sense.

"Oh wow," she says.

"Right? Now look at yourself—" And it's like light if there was much more to light than intensity and colour, it's light with meaning and he provides translation of the meaning and the details of her magic and her wings and her spells—

She gasps in delight and seizes him and kisses him.

Eeeeeee kissssss!

This is amazing! You just go around like this all the time?

Yes in the sense that that's always on, no in the sense that most things aren't that magical.

It must be so distracting when things are.

It's actually easy to ignore if I'm not directly looking at it. Like, when something's magical it's obvious that it is, but most of the—everything—about it needs to be found, I was showing you your best angle and all details I have found.

Oh. Huh.

Let me show you—And now the world looks pretty normal, and yeah there's some magic there, can't miss that even if he's not looking at it, this thing is 360, but that's it. Then he—shifts position—it's like the 72-dimensional equivalent of going around a corner, with this new sense rather than eyes, and then there's more to the magic, and if he mentally rotates things and moves them around he can uncover more and more details until it reaches the full glory that he saw her as when she arrived.

I am in awe and envy of your magic sense.

It's pretty great, I love it. I'm not sure I'd go as far as say being a metamancer wouldn't be fun if it weren't so pretty but it'd be less fun, for sure.

I can imagine! You should show Emily when we get home.

Okay!

She's super into aesthetic stuff, she'll be over the moon.

I'd give something like this to her permanently if I could but as far as I know my magic can't do it.

Well. Your world's magic can't.

Ooooh yes good point.

Although granted for something that lasted indefinitely for her it might be necessary for her to get some relevant spell, who knows. I'm sure if you two try hard and believe in yourselves you can figure something out.

I'm thinking actually that something I could get would be turning someone into a metamancer. It's the kind of thing I'd care about very strongly. But that'd be extremely powerful.