- huh. Is there anywhere nearby he can sit and eat?

A few businesses and homes have gardens with raised beds and retaining walls people can sit on. Arguably the edge of the city is nearby. And the nearest market square isn't hosting a market today.

A retaining wall works fine. He magics himself food for the day and wraps up the portions for dinner and for breakfast in the morning to stash in his belt before starting on his meal.

Someone who might be a child, but it's hard to tell with how creative they've gotten with their body plan, watches him bemusedly.

He waves, in between bites of sandwich.

They wave back.

"You know, you'd think I'd have heard of you, if you live around here and you're powerful enough to do that. But I don't think I have."

"I'm new, I just got here today. Name's Raafi."

"Angélique! Nice to meet you!"

"Likewise. Do you know what kind of magic people around here might be interested in? I have a few kinds."

She frowns.

"I think people mostly complain about how it's too hard to go home. Or get people out of hell. Or give more people magic. Also I think cooking is hard and I want to be able to make fancy cakes but I can't. Also it is completely unfair that I can't breathe fire. And. Hmm. I think it's very hard for people that they can't choose how many children come here at once?"

"Well, I can probably do something about some of those. Not the firebreathing or the cooking, unfortunately."

"Well, if you can then you should. Probably. How are you going to do that?"

"Well, it's been recommended that I talk to the king about hell, and that seems most urgent, so I'm going to do that before I make any plans. But if I can get to the world this is an afterlife of, I may be able to resurrect people there, or actually just teleport there with them, and it's not impossible you'll be able to pick up the type of magic I have, or one of the other ones from the world I'm from if I can get back there to bring you teachers."

"I approve, you should do that."

"I'm working on it. I was hoping to be able to support myself by selling spells while I'm getting oriented, though."

"Hmmm. Maybe if you can make weird food. Nobody pays for normal food but you have to pay for, like, ice cream or fresh vegetables."

He blinks a bit at that. "Any particular kind of fresh vegetables?"

Shrug. "I like the kind you can dip but I'm broke so I guess you should ask someone else."

"No, I mean - the spell I have that does food won't do anything very fancy or rare, but there are plenty of vegetables that aren't rare, so I'm not sure if that's what you meant or not."

Shrug. "You know how the boxes only have pickled ones? So not pickled ones."

"Huh. Well, that should work, then. Here, I have some carrot sticks I made for dinner, do you want them?" He gets the relevant bundle back out of his belt.

"Thanks!"

He finishes up his lunch and goes back to the library. "So my book said the king teaches classes, and there's a way to see them without taking one, how can I find out more about that?"

"Uh... I would check the university website for the lectures. You can borrow one of the computers for half an hour or until someone else wants it, whichever is longer, and if you're going to listen to things you should use headphones. And we have some of his books but they might be checked out right now."

"I've never used a computer before, should I be figuring that out first?"