"But you get more levels with practice?"

"Yep!"

"Neat!! I will have a flying carpet one day!"

"If the tattoo works."

"Yeah, if. Will it hurt?"

"Mine did a little afterwards.  It won't during; it would be a real problem if people flinched with someone going at them at seamster speeds."

"- yikes, I hadn't thought of that. It's cool that it won't during though!"

"Tattoos were invented before pain control was as good as it is but I don't think they were very popular.  - And it's possible to not speed up while sewing, but it takes an extra layer of concentration that you don't necessarily want to count on maintaining while working on a person."

"Does it feel like something? Speeding up?"

"I think it's . . . very different than not being sped up, but in a way that's really hard to notice at the time because you're focusing so hard on sewing.  I didn't realize I'd done it, my first time, until afterwards when I looked at a timepiece."

"I hope I can do magic rugs and be useful."

"Do you want to go talk to my projects agent about finding someone to do your tattoos?  It's not a far walk; I picked a spot close to them when I decided where to live."

"Sounds good!" She will put Cathei in the basket to be carried along.

And indeed only two tents over there's a smaller building-sized one made of patchwork in really disparate styles.

With a person inside, intently taking notes behind a desk and an opaque veil that shifts through the rainbow rather more regularly than Rabka's hair does.  " - Seamster Aiu," they greet in a low voice.  "And . . . ?"

"This is Rabka."

"Nice to meet you!"

"Likewise.  What can I do for you?"

"I can't do magic and heard maybe a tattoo could make me able to do magic."

". . . You . . . can't?"

"She can't even use pockets!  She's from somewhere very far away and just appeared suddenly."

"But you expect a tattoo to work?  I mean obviously there's the hair - nice hair, incidentally - "

"Thank you. I don't know if a tattoo will work or not but it seems worth a try?"

"Well . . . for a problem that novel I can only recommend Melar Raxoncia; if it's possible I expect she'll manage.  Would you like me to check her availability for a consultation?"

"I guess so!"