"I'll go fishing eventually, yes. I don't need to eat every day. I do need to sleep to recharge my magic, and plan to take some naps during calm weather." He'll be running on less sleep than usual, most likely, but that's preferable to letting the ship get too far away. He's studied it enough to find it with a teleport if need be, but there's always monster attacks.

"Whoa, in the air?"

By way of demonstration, he gains a bit of distance, makes a sphere of cloud a fair bit bigger than he is, and curls up atop it, halfway buried in floof. His tail swishes smugly. 

"Whoa, neat. Won't you lose the ship in the night?"

"I won't lose the ship outright, I can teleport to its location if it comes to that, but I am a bit worried about monsters. I can mitigate this somewhat with short naps, by flying ahead before taking them, and by waiting for calm winds. I need to do that anyway if I have to make my own clouds, they dissipate quickly under a stiff breeze." Indeed, the fluff is already thinning. "I suspect I'll be a bit more likely to notice a fight breaking out in the daytime, so I may stick to that where possible... How much range do you have, by the way? Can you drop a hailstone on my head if you can see me?"

"No, I have to be pretty close. You... won't be able to sense monsters, right. It wakes me up out of a dead sleep but if one flew up out of the sea it could sneak up on you."

"Technically, yes, but...it is surprisingly hard to sneak up on a sleeping dragon." A Perception of more than +30 has its perks. "I was thinking altitude would help as well. The one I fought earlier seemed to lose track of me at a few thousand feet up. I don't know their range limit, though, and don't want to get too far from the ship for obvious reasons. I'll manage." 

"Oh, they can fly, I'm not sure why it would have stopped chasing you if you got higher."

"Some creatures without natural vision have a hard range limit on their senses...but if you aren't sure they have one, I shouldn't rely on it. About how long to England, in expectation?" 

"About two more weeks."

"I can probably shave a little of that off by keeping the winds cooperative. There's only so fast a ship like the Shotley can be pushed, though.

"I'll have to ration spells more than usual, but it won't be crippling. I can nap briefly in human form on the ship, too. Two weeks is doable, but I'm open to suggestions to make it easier." 

"You have to ration spells? I thought you got them every day?"

"Only with sufficient rest, about the same as a human needs. I can function on far less sleep." 

"Oh, that's even worse than I thought. There's bigger ships than this, if you want to take escort work - you'd want maybe a whole fleet that had a regular magical girl or two, so they could sense the monsters, but you could help fight them, and if the ship were big enough maybe you could land on it."

"I'm frankly more inclined to go hunting, if I decide fighting monsters is the best use of my abilities. These monsters primarily come from the sea?"

"Swarms can appear on land too, but big monsters show up when nobody kills them while they're small, so the sea and the forest and the mountains and stuff. There's the shells of magical girls who went too far who hunt them, though."

"I should like to get a look at these 'shells', sometime, in case there's anything I can do for them. Doubtful, but worth trying." 

"They're friendly, generally, so it's safe to go up to them and have a look if you spot one, but they all look different."

"Good to know. What are your own plans on returning to England?" 

"...get on another boat probably. There's nothing I want to do there particularly and boats always want magical girls. I guess I might stay with this one but I'd let somebody outbid them, I'm on this one because I wanted to leave right away."

"Understandable. Well, that's certainly an argument in favor of my escorting a fleet from time to time." 

"It pays pretty good especially in bonuses when there's monsters."

"Excellent. I do share my kind's stereotypical fondness for shiny things." And now he has questions about currency and how much of it will buy what! 

She can explain pounds and shillings and so on like a native Englishwoman.

Those sound like moderately shiny things. He'll ask some followup questions about their banking system and debts and such before swapping to lighter topics, like what places are worth visiting if one can teleport.