"Well, I'll try to get it as soon as possible, then."

"Thank you! Um, I know how to latch-hook rugs? If that's useful?"

"I don't think I've heard of that style, but maybe?  Are they magic - no, you said it's just the places, right?"

"Yeah, no, I don't know how to make them magic at all. But... I do have a latch hook on me?"

"Well, maybe you'll have a head start and be able to do lots of magic right away now that you're here!"

"What can magic rugs even do?"

"Mostly stay very clean.  Some of them can fly; I think there are ones that do environmental things but inside the city we mostly do those with the tents."  They exit the purple tent and are in a moonlit field surrounded by a forest, crickets chirping merrily around them - nope they're still in a tent.  The top of this one looks like a realistic sky complete with clouds shifting in the breeze.  Aiu heads for another tent pitched inside it rather than the exit.  "And lots of them roll up smaller than they lay out, things like that."

"Oh. What kind of fabric turns teapots into babies again?"

"It's not really the type of fabric that matters most."  He fiddles a bit with his necklace.  "I was thinking maybe something that you put on as a tea cozy, that works as a hat after it turns her baby-shaped."

"Would she turn into a teapot again without her hat?"

". . . I think I won't be able to tell that until I start actually working on it, at the earliest."

"Huh. Okay. Well, having to wear a hat isn't so bad but it will need to still fit when she's older."

"I can make sure it grows with her."

"Aww, neat."

"Though if she decides she hates how it looks as she grows up it'll be easier to make a replacement; the first item of a kind is always the hardest."  They reach the next tent; this one's raining inside.  It fails to get them wet.

"Why's the first hardest?" She waves an arm curiously through the fail-rain.

The drops appear to hit her arm and bounce off.  It doesn't feel like anything when they do.

"Well, if you know there's an item that works a certain way, then you don't have to doubt that it's possible to make something that does that at all, because it's right there doing it already.  - Of course, that's only if you know it exists; there could be dozens of 'first' versions of an item across the globe.  But I just don't see somebody trying to make this particular thing again without having heard of the one I'm going to do."

"And probably if you don't have magics nobody else is being turned into things like teapots."

"Not that I or - anyone I know has ever heard of."  Walk walk.  "I could look it up when we get to my place."

"Okay. Why is there a fake rain tent?"

"Why wouldn't there be?  It's nice to have weather sometimes."

"It seems kind of silly! And it doesn't feel like rain. Couldn't you just go outside?"

"I don't think it's allowed for there to be weather that can actually make people uncomfortable in the big tents that lots of us have to walk through; there are other places you could go for rain that gets you wet.  And it seems kind of over-the-top to go all the way outside for weather when you can just have it in places you're already going to be!"

"Do you just never go outside?"

"Way more times than never!  Just not often."