"Not really. I could spell it clean, but not knowing how its innards work that'd be expensive."

"I'll think about it later. I can just find a good stick if I can't keep it working, so..."

She nods. "I wouldn't know where to find oil anyway."

"And it can't just be cooking oil, it's special non-rusting lubricant stuff. So. Yeah. Nevermind."

She nods.

"I haven't seen too much of the clothes here so - warn me if I am about to make a scandalous or terrible fashion choice."

"Yeah, I will."

And they can go shopping and not think about things and Kaede can distract Gren when she needs to be distracted.

Which is reasonably often. She's a bit twitchy at flying things.

Her fashion sense is very foreign, but not very picky. All the pretty magical art is nice and distracting though.

"Where are you getting the money for all this, your savings? Be frugal if you have to, I'm used to that."

"The Explorer's Guild. I'm a—particularly productive finder, and that comes with its monetary perks. Plus a couple of other things." Like the thing with arcanist scrolls.

"Nice. I should probably sign up to the enchanters' guild and get introduced to stuff and earn a little coin for myself so I'm not mooching, maybe after you tell me what to expect, how to act." ...Surveying and exploring is a good job for Witches too, if you want something more exciting than being a courier or whatever your special does.

"Sure, I can help you out with that." Yeah I definitely cheat with metamancy and you can cheat with witchcraft.

"And then I can pay you back for the clothes and stuff."

"You don't need to pay me back." Especially with the mana and the 'fixing every problem ever.'

"Call it habit then. Ma told me not to leave debts." I suppose you're right though. Lots of good work to look forward to.

"It's fine." Yes exactly!!! Just the technology -

"Know any craftsmen or smiths around here? So we can talk to one about that idea I had." Do you even have steel? Steel is expensive and hard to make, but you need it for most of the good stuff...

We do. "Yeah, this town has several, some of them magical."

"Something to think about when I'm a little more centered. I should probably make sketches. Do you mind buying paper and ink? I've got a pen."

"Sure!" They can go buy that.

Paper and ink and clothes and oh gosh the music boxes are kind of great. "I've heard of things like this but it really is amazing! And the way they decorate them, so pretty."

She grins. "They're pretty awesome, aren't they?"

"Yeah. I'm reminded of a silly expression... You can't put an orchestra in a bottle. Except apparently you can, or at least something similar."

"Yeah. This is rented, though, it runs out of charge after a while. But yeah."

She starts humming along. "Magic is great."

"It really is."