"Except to stay out of the way if New York and Shanghai start flinging curses at each other."

"... Hopefully that won't start until next year."

"It only takes one idiot."

"Mother always said there are a lot of those..."

"And the enclave kids have been less aggressively pruned of theirs."

"Because they get more slots here and have an easier time graduating?"

"And are less likely to have died before now if they were."

"Is it hard to keep safe from mals before puberty?"

"Not hard hard not usually, but generally speaking everyone's tastiness start's blooming at thirteen."

"I guess there were more mals around the past year or so."

"I grew up with a mundane in the house, so that helps."

"That does sound like it would help."

"Pity the nurse has to be so thoroughly scrubbed of monsters-don't-exist or she'd be useful for that here, though not useful enough to offset the plunge in already miniscule life expectancy. Maybe we should poke our noses in there, sound her out about buying magic bandages."

"Oh that's a good idea, I know some healing magic but I only have a few healing cookies for serious injuries."

"We used up a chunk of our weight allowance on the best healing goo Mum could brew, but that's less of a renewable resource than bandages are since neither of us is an alchemist."

"Silk should be good for bandages shouldn't it?"

"Exactly!"

"I'll keep you in mind, if I have mana I shouldn't need bandages but well... the times I need bandages I'm probably going to be low."

"Bandages should probably be a staple honestly, they don't use that much silk and there'll be loads of call for them..."

"Is good to have something lots of people need. I'm hoping that healing magic is that for me, also Mother taught me to do abortions safely, I don't know how often people need that but I expect it's valuable when they do."

"I have an implant in my arm but not everyone's willing to risk the odds that nothing will go wrong with an implant or an IUD for four years."

"Mother took out my uterus, she says she'll give me a new one after I graduate if I want one."

"I guess you could do that with her affinity!"

"It's really cool what Mother can do. She does some medical magic for mundanes, they pay lots of money for it."

"I bet. She disguise it as really good mundane medicine?"