Lilian takes her tea as well, and drinks it in the needlessly elaborate manner that she has seen nobles drink tea in some of the fancier places she has visited in her homeworld. None of the gestures will mean anything to Kalyri, but they should help sell her image.

"Luck magic is fascinating. Is this mortal-made? Or was it created by a god? Are there any long-term effects for people who enter and then leave again?"

Lilian is hiding how incredibly nervous this makes her. On her home world, only one civilization ever managed to invent magic that can alter luck. The mages involved did not properly specify what counts as a good or a bad outcome, and so it went very poorly. Even worse, it turned out that luck is infectious. The entire area is a quarantine zone now, and anyone who tries to leave is killed, to prevent them from infecting others with the "luck" they contracted in the zone.

After this event, the god Akash made it impossible for mortals to repeat this. So how is it possible that the Tinerti can do this? Do the gods she knows even influence this world?

Kalryi blinks a little at the odd tea mannerisms, but shrugs it off, seeming to mentally label it as “weird foreign stuff.” 

“A god? - No, it’s… mage-made? I’m not certain that “mortal” is translating quite right. You don’t keep the bad luck if you leave quick. If you lose a limb, or your life, that’s certainly a long-term effect.”

"But it stops at just you losing a limb, right? It doesn't, for example, make you infectiously insane so that you end up telling weird stories to all your friends and family. Who become fascinated and decide to check out the place as well. Then when they are there, they get affected by the bad luck as well. And then they go and recruit more people. Until eventually a whole country has been subverted to whatever cause the.probability manipulating effect is serving. We have something like that where I am from. It's pretty bad. We had to put half the continent under a quarantine and kill everyone who comes out of that area immediately, because listening to them will get you infected as well."

“What the- what- no! What the fuck- no. That. No.”

"Glad to hear it! It's just an effect that gets people killed for staying in there too long then?"

Lilian wonders how this kind of magic would affect her personally. Tonos' mark is effectively a form of probability manipulation as well. If she were to take a walk in there, the magic field of Tinerti would probably play tug of war with Tonos. Who is not even known to exist here? So it's anyone's guess who would win. She hopes she will never have to find out.

Kalryi, not being a mindreader (to her eternal disappointment), has no clue about this train of thought! She simply nods.

“…Basically, yes. Not… whatever you just described. Er. You wanted paper, right?”