"Oh no... we're here."
And she screams when a lightning bolt hits a tower less than three hundred metres from where they're standing.
"Well I won't do it with magic, I'll build something that does it. Like what my brother made, but better."
"I'm not sure how you'd go about trumping magic with technology… Unless you mean, magitech like that other thing?"
"...magitech? I guess it is that, we use pyreflies to build stuff, but we use pyreflies for everything."
"Not... exactly? It's difficult to explain without a lot of background concepts—yes in the sense that it uses pyreflies to do that, no in the sense that regular magic involves imbibing them with intentions and emotions and this doesn't do that, exactly."
"… Where I'm from I'm reasonably confident technology can't affect my magic. Or, I guess maybe it could eventually? But it seems weird."
"… Right, but, where I'm from it's not and where I'm from technology doesn't I think have an obvious means to affect my magic?"