And he can have those things. Writing down his entire genome will take forever and she'll charge kind of a lot for that.

How much is a lot, and would it help if she borrowed his laptop, it has a keyboard. If it's too much he can just ask for a long list of interesting regions.

Well, it's billions of base pairs. Saira has never read a book that long that wasn't a record of a genetic code. Also books of genetic codes tend to come in multiple volumes. Lots of volumes.

There are lots of conserved sequences that don't vary much in humans, she would be happy to 80/20 this for a lot cheaper. Even more so if he's only interested in a specific list of genes.

Yeah, alright. Too bad about there not being magic transcription. He'd like the combination of his list of interesting genes and her default list of interesting genes, what's the price on that?

To write it out base pair by base pair, some number times twelve to the fourth imperial rings. To take shorthand notes like "blue eyes" or "sickle cell", at substantial loss of precision, closer to twelve cubed imperial rings... but she actually doesn't know what everything does and also some of her notes will be unclear to non-professionals.

He'll discuss a shorter list with her and buy about 864 rings worth of shorthand notes, if there's a key he can borrow from Bar. He makes a few faces about being unable to properly utilize Saira's talents. After he gets the list, he'll also buy 288 rings worth of changes, pick up a bunch of seeds and some yeast packets from Bar, and load up some previously-untranslatable archaeological documents to transcribe as well as pick up some lost texts. Is Saira aware that inheritance magic is really cool, because it is, it is super cool, thanks Saira.

He heads back to the commerce area looking sheepish and would also like Cinlirina to scry his world's past for him, then heads back to his table again.

She is aware that it's super cool. At some point in the middle of all this she gets a room, sleeps, and comes back down to keep doing exactly the same stuff.

Saira's first client of the morning would like to have her Y chromosome replaced with an X chromosome, specifically an X chromosome lacking the SRY gene! Yes she knows that she's not currently producing testis-determining factor anyway, she still wants this. It is not immediately obvious how someone with this client's appearance managed to have had the SRY gene in the first place. She also goes back and forth with Bar and has some other proposals about epigenetic changes particularly re FOXL2, can Saira handle that? She knows this is undertested but there is an infirmary right here if something goes wrong.

"I will trade you those things for an explanation of how you came to be female that's detailed enough for a medical structure mage or whatever relevant kind of mage to work from."

…she's not all the way female, that's why she wants to buy the chromosomal change, but sure, she'll discuss the details of biomedical transition. Genetic women and genetic men produce these chemicals, here are diagrams. If you're a male-to-female transsexual, you take estrogen and some antiandrogen and maybe progesterone. You want to match the genetic-female reference ranges, here they are, Saira probably wants to copy these numbers. …and also maybe annotate the chemical diagram. These are some popular administration methods. Also if people get their testicles surgically removed they produce less testosterone so they usually don't need antiandrogens. It's important to have at least a little bit of testosterone, even genetic women have some, the optimal level isn't zero. She's actually hoping to end up with endogenous estrogen production from this experiment though!

In the interests of clarity, she's also had surgical procedures done, hormone therapy alone produces less dramatic results. Bar does have explanations of the surgical procedures? Also, there are corresponding options for female-to-male transsexuals, but they don't need antiestrogens. Also, Saira may be interested in some speculation on possible genetic modifications!

Advanced medicine can do so many things! They know so many things about hormones! Maybe they'll also figure out caralendri at some point, their sexes are weird.

Saira is totally interested in speculation on possible genetic modifications.

"So X chromosomes have a lot of stuff on them that Y chromosomes don't, do you want me to copy from the Xs you already have or what?"

It would be neat if she could be heterozygous for red-green color blindness, actually. She doesn't know if that will actually fix colorblindness in an adult but it can't hurt, right? Otherwise she'd like a duplicate if that doesn't seem too unsafe.

Thirty trillion slightly tweaked X chromosomes, coming right up!

"Got it, but it'll take a while for you to see a difference."

She wanted this less for physiological changes and more to be genetically female. It will be neat if she starts having better color vision though. She will be sure to test serum estradiol levels going forward to see if she has endogenous production such that she ought to cease taking exogenous estradiol.

"Sounds interesting. Come back if you want anything else while I'm here."

She will!

Also, a malnourished teenager enters the bar! He pokes things (but not customers) with a knife, mutters a rhyme under his breath, and then heads to Bar and in short order acquires a massive milkshake, which he appears to be forcing himself to not consume too rapidly. He looks at Saira's signage, looks back at a note that came with the milkshake, and with deep reluctance pauses in milkshake consumption to approach Saira to ask for her price on a cure for sickle-cell anemia.

"Wow, you're old to have sickle cell disease, I take it your world's magic can't help. How do you feel about whatever amount of your currency is worth forty-eight Hari imperial rings?"

"My parents couldn't afford a healer."

The teenager exchanges notes with Bar and hands over a crystal. The crystal appears to be impure corundum, it doesn't look like currency? Nonetheless, he says that he can transfer 48 rings from his bar tab to Saira's.

It must be magic.

"That sucks and it would make my friend's bosses angry, which my friend says makes people feel better when you tell them. I think. I may have misunderstood some of that. Anyway, hm..." Saira looks at the teenager for a while. "There you go."

The teenager speaks with Bar again, and Bar notes on a napkin that Saira's been paid. "Yeah, I don't feel particularly reassured by that? Thanks for the fix, though." He continues drinking the milkshake, and starts going through a Wikipedia printout while kind of slumping onto the bar. Eventually he hands over some more metal and gems and gets scissors, a tape measure, multivitamin pills, clothing, shelf-stable food, and some other similar goods.

"You might want to talk to my friend, actually. Might be in the infirmary right now. They're a talking plant person called Griffie."

…yeah, sure. He'll head to the infirmary.

So, as much as Griffie would like to fully solve the problems of a teenager from a deadly magic school, ey doesn't actually have the budget for it, and ey can't take him home with em either. Ey does have a charitable donation budget, but the number of charity cases who come in per day is not a number of people who it is possible to fully solve the problems of on infirmary wages. Still, he can have some funds, ey'll transfer him some over Bar's network from eir tablet. He might want to talk to Saira again, actually, about relevant skills for emigration to Har? It's plausibly the case that he'd have to enter as legally Saira's property but the law enforcement in Har apparently can actually prevent people from being assaulted by monsters. Also bar security is adequate within the main bar area, he can sleep on a couch there or do janitorial work for a room and Bar will do her solid best to get him the most nutrition she can offer him per unit currency while he stays.

He heads back over to Saira and thanks her for the advice. "So, Griffie sent me some funds. They say that they don't have a safe community they can offer people places in, but you do, and that there are some legal matters we'd need to discuss about Har and adolescents. I would be honored to learn about options for being a lawful contributing member of Anavel Sani." (He knows perfectly well what the most glaring legal matter is, but most enclaves don't like having their offers discussed so bluntly.)