"It's easier to disguise it as alternative medicine otherwise you have to talk with the mundane government a lot more. Also mundanes who believe in alternative medicine are more credulous."

"You know what, that's fair. As long as she doesn't humor them about vaccines being bad because fuck that shit."

"I don't really know the details, even with more credulous mundanes it's easier to do magic on them when they're asleep so I usually don't talk with them."

"Valid but my opinion stands."

"It's nice that you care about the whole world. Mother and I are pretty isolated honestly. I don't know that much about a lot of things. Just bits from the internet and what Mother thought was important for me to know."

"I mean, belief is belief, and I really want to not get sick with a dozen diseases that should have been squished by herd immunity."

"I guess that would be a worry if you have to pay for healing."

"Yep, it sure would."

"Sorry, I knew mundanes had trouble getting healing but I didn't realize it was a problem for wizards. I thought healers were more common than that."

"It's not that big a deal on the outside but in here you don't want to spend healing on being sick that you could instead spend on not dying of a horrible bite or something."

"That makes sense. Hopefully you won't get sick. If you do, I might be able to help but infections are harder than injuries for biomancy and it's not my affinity."

"We have some healing. We'll see how bad it gets if we do get sick, if it's not bad enough to keep us from going to class we might just use the misery to grind mana."

"That might work, it sucks that you build more mana doing things that you don't like or that make you miserable."

"It's not the first thing I'd change about magic."

"Obviously the first thing anyone would change would be the mals, is there something else you have in mind though?"

"No, it's mostly just that!"

"Yeah, it's sad that so many people die so young. And that often times they spent so much of their life doing things they didn't enjoy just to have better chances."

"And the whole--zero-sum nature of wizard society."

"Yeah, until someone comes up with a better way to keep teens safe things aren't going to change. Maybe we can think of something though."

"It'd be nice. Have to live long enough first."

"You seem to be off to a good start."

"We sure hope so!"

"I think we all do. I'll let you get back to your deal making. Hopefully we'll see each other around for a long while yet."

"See you."