"This takes time to happen, though, will I be all right if I do anything high stakes with de novo objects and chuck suspicious ones into the void?"

"If you could make magic things at all I would be more cautious but yes it does take time to happen."

"I cannot as far as I'm aware make magic things at all!"

"It would be weird if there was some specific magical thing you could make but the dress came out that way."

"Yeah, I probably can't do any, but we didn't do a very large battery of tests." He interpolates something that's trying to hide in the bentos.

"That's true, I guess."

"Is there more advertising of some kind I could be doing here? I feel like going 'breakfast, hot nonpoisonous breakfast for free' would probably not land here."

"Hmmmmmmm. Maybe you could put a sign on yourself saying 'weird void creature, not a mal.' It's bizarre but so is the breakfast situation..."

"I think probably do not do that."

"Nobody's tried to toast me yet, I don't think they're identifying me as a mal, just as - strange."

"It isn't really occurring to them that you might be, I think; better not to put it in their heads. Mals don't generally look as humanlike as you but we're more acculturated to unpleasant surprises than pleasant ones."

Nod nod. "I could cut my wings off?"

"I wouldn't--guess that that would help? I mean, the fact that you are bizarre and out of context is in fact extremely relevant to, uh, this."

"Okay. There's not much room to fly in here but they do help me balance so I'd as soon not if it will not improve my overall reception."