Maybe she will be less scary if she sits down? 

She does this. "I want to ask you some questions about what's possible to do with magic, in your world. What kind of spells exist and what do they do?" 

"...I don't know that much about it because I didn't go to school. You can do - wards - you can set things on fire - you can make shields..." 

Masozi will fumblingly try to go through a full list of spells he's ever vaguely heard of. It sounds - sort of midway between Velgarth and Golarion magic, in terms of structure? Spells are discrete units with specific incantations that take a certain length of time to cast, they're not freeform, but they don't need to be prepared in advance, if they've been learned, and you can cast more of them per day by 'building mana' which means doing effortful things like exercise on purpose. 

"Can anyone learn it or do you have to be born with a gift for it?"

"Think you gotta be born with it." 

Awww, and it's probably too late for Iomedae to give it to the baby, if it's like Gifts and has to be at conception. 

"How do people learn new spells?" 

"From classes? Or you ask the void for books or find them in the library." 

"Ask...the Void...for books?" 

"Yeah? It gives you books. Only spellbooks, I think? 'Cept the school nurse, she can get medicines too." 

What. 

"What...is the Void."

"I dunno, it's - dark and empty and mals can't go through it? And it's - sort of outside normal space - s'why the school is there, it's safer from mals, I think enclaves are sorta in the void too? And it has...lost things? In it? Or spellbooks might run away there on purpose." 

Glance at Carissa. "I - am not sure if it is the same as our void? It sounds similar but somewhat different." 

"Yeah. ....it goes on forever, right, is it known to be physically consistent everywhere it is?"

Blank look. "Dunno how you'd tell. You can't go in it - or, you can, but then you die." 

"I see. How do people get into the Scholomance?"

"There's a spell, it - grabs you and moves you there instantly? It doesn't work if you're too heavy so you can't be carrying very much." 

:Teleport with a weight limit?: Nayoki asks. 

Plane Shift, presumably? But yeah - it feels like they might have approximately the same building blocks as us but a different kind of sorcery for using them...

:Sorcery, right, that would be the best match for it - but with more spells, maybe...?: 

She turns back to the kid. "What does a wizard's education look like, in your world?"

"In the Scholomance you have - lab class, and shop class, and classes about history and math and things, and languages. - S'important to know lots of languages, then you can get more skills–"

And he remembers Lan Xichen teaching him Mandarin, his voice gentle and intent and infinitely patient - remembers him hugging Masozi and casting his calming spell and promising it would be all right, remembers him sharing his emotions that said so loudly that Masozi was one of his people - 

- remembers the guards arriving at his room, and then Lan Xichen's stony distant face, and the mysterious nameless thing-that-hurts is back, he hadn't known something could hurt that much and he doesn't understand it and suddenly he's sobbing again... 

Nayoki lifts a hand. :- I have no idea what specifically set that off but I think we should probably pause it for a moment there. ...No, Lara - no one touch him, it is not going to help: 

She's going to need to get more competent at crying children before the baby arrives. 

Nayoki does not have any particular skill with upset children either, despite her particular Gift. She...can hold very still and wait for the kid to calm down? 

His mind is under very intense strain but he's clearly wrestling for control, including via some concerningly violent squashing-and-stepping-on large swathes of his mind. When he stops crying, he stares fixedly ahead.