"Nothing on the base is magical unless it's hidden away."

"In general serious people who've thought about it don't tend to think things are magic."

He pokes at his phone.

"Okay, the list of unsolved problems in physics is not very helpful here. We don't have a good model for predicting the exact details of how water flows in chaotic environments like rivers but if literally every river were magic you would already know this because Golarion also has rivers. There's an unexplained way of producing light by playing really really loud sounds in liquids?"

"Sometimes people think ghosts are real and haunt houses, or that fairies are real and interact with circles of mushrooms, or that various people who aren't you can heal people by conducting religious services, or such."

"Golarion has ghosts and fairies but that does not mean that Earth has," says Blai.

"It is probably not the best use of your time to go look at miscellaneous places people think are magic when you could be healing or stabilizing people and working with people to try and figure out wizard magic, but it would probably be doable."

"No, I agree. It would just be odd if boomerangs were magic and nothing else was, and you suggested they might."

"Oh. I thought you were suggesting it."

"Not at all, the enchantment I was thinking of can equally well be applied to any throwing weapon. Daggers, spears."

"Ah. We in fact don't have returning versions of those."

Nod.

As it turns out, the real secret to producing good flight conditions is to have a conversation in which both parties think the other one is proposing the hypothesis that boomerangs are magic.

Blai and Chris and some other people should board a plane.

Okay! He has mentally rehearsed this and several contingency plans over and over! He gets on the plane without further ado.

Takeoff presses him into the back of his seat, as expected. Chris dangles a weight on a string and it tilts.

"You may want to look out the window periodically, it's a pretty different view than you get from the ground."

Okay he will OH wow they are high up and getting moreso.

The ice slowly transitions from a featureless sheet to mountains.

Did anyone notify him in advance about airsickness bags?

Yes, there's an obvious one in reach and he's been told how to use it. (And ginger candy was also provided.)

He makes use of the bag and then... gingerly... assays the candy.

"I can help you get that bag sealed up for disposal, and you might want to drink a bit of water to clean out your mouth."

Blai nods and closes up the bag as directed, creates himself some water and sips it, has more candy.