"I poked various mages at my home to agree to spelling mirrors," he says, conversationally, because this is the sort of thing she would probably like to be informed of. "Zane made them, I handed them off before I came here."

"That's good, we always seem to want more of those than we have."

"Exactly. If only they grew on trees."

"Maybe we should look up Tayane and see if there's anything worth pulling out of magics. We could summon a fairy to get them safely, or something."

"There's an idea. Are magics likely to have anything worthwhile?"

"They don't usually produce useful things, but they sometimes can. Case in point my door, and the healing I got before that and the disappeared shackles. Some people get stuff out of magics with fishing rods and other tools and sell them."

"Fishing for magic. That must be an interesting hobby. Well, we can go check?"

"Sure. When you and Cypress have mana again. Maybe when I've had more time to be - accustomed, and can play tour guide less distractedly."

"Yes. A distracted tour guide is the second worst kind, I hear."

"After?"

"One that is also on fire, I assume."

She snorts. Snuggle.

Snuggle.

"And we can see if Eseo is still practicing slavery and do - something, about that, if they are, but perhaps they've phased it out of their own accord."

"Yes. We are very magic, I assume that if they haven't, we can look at them sternly, I shoot lightning out of my hand, and then they will politely agree with us that yes, slavery is bad."

"I have never seen you shoot lightning out of your hand."

"I can, I just don't. It's showy but wasteful."

"It sounds very impressive, anyway. I'm just not sure you can gather all the people who participate in an entire nation's slave trade in one place and show off to them."

"Darn. Scary flight and minor showy effects, then. Or I can steal scrolls from Max and Phix, and show off with those."

"Or we could just bring the critters themselves, they get shapeshifting for free."

"That too. We should see if they'd like to go."

"If I recall correctly it's safe to overfly magics. They only reach up so far; birds flying over them don't get turned into things. So we can make passes over them to see if there's cool stuff in the middle."

"Well, convenient that we can all fly, then."

"Well, Annie and Aldaras can't yet, right?"

".... Well. Okay, convenient that eventually we will all be able to fly."