"I want one but we don't know if it works on my kind of magic person."

There's a lot of irrelevant stuff in there (conspirator orders delivery Escobaran cuisine, conspirator dutifully writes to grandmother, conspirator sends regrets in response to invitation to birthday party, conspirator volunteers to host the change ringing enthusiasts' convention next year) but when sufficiently picked through, apparently Nika was an orphaned dragon and the dragon conspiracy wanted to put some dragons on Barrayar and (quite responsibly, of course) did so with some dragon babies going spare.

"Apparently," she says to Nika, "you're an orphaned dragon."

"Well, that is less awkward than being a not orphaned dragon."

"True." She reads a little more. "And there are two other orphaned dragons on this planet - I haven't yet found out why the dragons wanted to bequeath their orphans to Barrayar, or where they put the other two..."

Any reasons available?

The conspirators seem to think this will result on Barrayar having a lot of dragons eventually and this is important for sphinx-related reasons (boo hiss).

"The dragons are... engaged in some sort of surreptitious conflict with the sphinxes? And - hm - they expect dragon orphans on Barrayar to result in a booming local dragon population."

"It looked like if you had a magic parent you were magic. So it'd rise to most of the population pretty fast if there's intermixing and people have a lot of kids -"

"Only if dragons automatically have dragon kids not whatever else kind of magic kids, though, if there's kinds, sphinxes sound magic."

"Sphinxes do sound magic... is there any way for you to conjure accurate representations of what mythical species someone is in particular?"

Uh, current physical bodies of dragons in this room at this moment?

Nika. Human shaped.

"Yep, I can filter for that, looks like."

"Hmm - but could you go through lists of people we have already determined are magic and find out what kind of mythical creature they are, without necessarily knowing in advance what the list of options is? It might not just be dragons and sphinxes."

"I could probably sort into 'dragons' 'sphinxes' or 'neither', but I'd need categories to sort the 'neithers' further."

"And I don't know what other sorts of mythical creatures there are or even if being magic and being a mythical creature are equivalent. There might be other ways to be magic. Well - try 'dragons on Barrayar' and stop if you produce more than ten, and the same with sphinxes?"

There are three dragons on Barrayar - Nika and two blond kids her age - and no sphinxes. "Is there a natural category including dragons and sphinxes that also has other members? 'Earth mythology' or something?"

"Yeah, Earth mythology would cover that."

"What else is there Earth mythology about?"

"Fairies?"

Fairies on Barrayar, then in this dimension, slow so he can stop if there're tons - "None of those."

"Unicorns?"

He tries for that!

Barrayar has those!

He stops the conjuring because Barrayar has quite a few of those wow. "Okay, unicorns exist."

"Cool," says the resident eight year old girl.