"I am certainly willing to help with the super-interesting new magic."

"I can give you our notes on the portal spell and what we've been able to look into, and you're under much less scrutiny and can devote more time than us—than me—to it. This can save us a lot."

"I would be glad to help!"

"I'll be by tomorrow evening with the notes, then. Same time, same place?"

"Deal."

"Here, let me give you something to help with the research—" He gives her the battery ring he'd been keeping in his pocket, as well as a buttload of lifeforce. "I do hope you're not one of the evil metamancers we've all heard of, tricking me out of my magic."

"Gods, you are the best! I promise not to be an evil metamancer!"

"I think I would have noticed if you were," he says, wryly. "See you tomorrow."

And he takes off.

Felix is writing something on a book when Kaede gets there and doesn't look up.

"Hi, love."

"Why, I didn't know we were so intimate," says phe Bez, making himself visible.

"—what—Felix?"

Felix continues to write unresponsive to the conversation.

"Don't bother. I had some rather interesting question to ask him and he had some rather interesting answers but I'm not some evil metamancer from stories who—"

Yeah no Kaede's not waiting all memories of sorcery and the second book are gone from this room with a flick of his wrist—

"—what did you just do you little—" He gestures expansively with his arm—

—and Kaede's knocked out.