"What's a globe in this context."

"A model of the world as though it were round."

"That's a weird thing to make, yeah.  Is round-earthism - popular?"

"Round-earthism? Reckoning the earth is round? Well, I thought so but maybe all this time I was the only one who thought globes were meant to be accurate."

"Huh.  - And, uh, yeah that."

"I feel really stupid now," confesses Queenie. "I was never a great shakes at academics but I'd thought I could get what shape the planet is right."

"How . . . is the world being round . . . supposed to work?"

"Well, it's not, you've just said."

"But when you thought it was?"

"Oh, I thought down was toward the middle, which was molten, and it spun so it looked like the sun was rising and setting, and went around the sun at the same time for the year. I haven't the foggiest now I know better though."

"I guess it's possible that this world is round somehow; I just have no idea how that would - work - "

"Is it? Possible?" frowns Queenie. "Well, now I kind of want to look up somebody who'd know and ask."

"I don't know!  You'd think it'd feel different . . ."

"Why?"

"Well, if it's spinning, then why isn't there centrifugal force or something flinging us all off."

"You know, that's a good question. I kind of want to call my brother and ask, he's smart."

"Sure."

Queenie goes and calls her brother. "Hey, Damien, I have kind of a stupid question! Yeah. Okay, so: is the earth round? - see that's what I thought! Okay, but so why doesn't centrifugal - oh, I guess that's straightforward. I have mixed feelings about you too. See you Friday." She hangs up. "He says gravity's just plain stronger than the amount of centrifugal force but if the earth spun faster it'd fling us."

"Huh.  . . . My knowledge of crystal magic relies a lot on some constellations staying in the same place all the time.  I might not actually be very helpful to any of the power plants here."

"I don't think we have any power plants that run on crystal magic," says Queenie. "There's coal ones, and dams, and oil ones, and maybe even nuclear ones, but I never heard of a crystal magic one. Maybe they only do that in Italy."

"How do you get essential oils without crystals?"

"I think they squeeze plants."

"Like herbs and stuff?"

"Yeah. Though I think tea tree oil comes from a tree."

"Oh.  What's nuclear?"