"Fireheart thinks they're real and very important and Cloudpaw doesn't.  I don't know very much about them."

"Do you know why Fireheart thinks they're real?"

"Not really."

"Maybe I'll ask him tonight." He looks at Jackie. "Princess unfortunately cannot shed more light on the situation."

"You c - there's an option to - ugh.  My thing isn't something you can just get around with wink wink nudge nudge phrasing, so just take this as like.  A clarification of what I previously said, and not a suggestion of any particular course of action.  Which is that the troubling thing happens at higher doses and not so much at lower ones.  And the gummies are conveniently dosed but they're also like, divisible, if - if nothing, never mind."

"I will consider this if I can't recruit someone less skeeved and less, uh, birthday cursed. I don't need your gummies unless omnilol is itself magic or sentient instead of just being a drug, though, I can make arbitrary material objects."

"What."

He tosses the sphere model of the Earth he made earlier hand to hand, taps it with his fingernail.

"Why you already had that on you was one of my too-many-questions."

"I didn't, I made it. Kind of right in front of you but perhaps you thought I was very good at sleight of hand. Please do not feel moved to leverage my awesome powers for world optimization, I am already on it and apparently you are under a horrible curse."

"It's so horrible.  I have absolutely no suggestions for what you should do with this incredible power.  Also it would surprise me a lot if omnilol weren't magic but I don't actually know."

"Are there other things understood to be magic?"

"Well, for one, the stars."

"Other terrestrial things?"

"Birthdays in general?  People in general, or at least souls?  Crystals?"

"Crystals! Do go on about crystals."

"They do healing and stuff."

"...go on slightly more? Or kick me out and I'll find a library."

"There are birthstones associated with each month, and people wear theirs for miscellaneous minor helpfulnesses, like nullifying influenza, and also you can put other kinds in arrays to create resonances for more serious healing.  - I said 'you' but really I mean licensed professionals; it's complicated business.  Oh, and sometimes they use different types of herbs as part of those, too."

"Huh. Okay."

"I'm trying to think of more really basic stuff that it's definitely safe for me to cover - uh, in your video thing it did not seem like you guys were geocentric; we obviously are, and the sun and the moon are the same size and distance away and they're always opposite each other . . ."

(There is, as she says this, something very moon-like visible through the sliding door.  In the daytime.)

Cam glances outside. "- then what's that?"

"Polaris."

"...what is Polaris, here."

"It's . . . that?  Sorry, that's not helpful - it's a sphere, hovers over the North pole, goes up and down, exudes cold, is why we have seasons?"