"What positive trait would you say you possess?
A. Loyal
B. Independent
C. Brave
D. Kind
E. Honest
F. Mature
G. Adventurous
H. Easygoing
I. Respectful"

"Wow, this one is hard too. Maybe easygoing??"

"Let's just go with it for now. Next is another sun-related question."

"What time of day do you prefer?
A. Dawn
B. Morning
C. Afternoon
D. Dusk
E. Night"

"Dawn is when the sun starts rising, morning is shortly after it's risen, afternoon is when it's pretty bright, dusk is when it's setting, night is when you can't see it at all."

"...I... guess... that night is like what I'm used to... which might be good, or it might be the worst but I don't know what the others look like..."

"I can try to show you something here…"

A light moves across the space.

"Huh. I guess it's interesting for the sky to be a different color and it would be fun to see for real but I'm gonna stick with night."

"Okay."

"It's the middle of the night and you decide to take a walk. While walking for a bit you find several paths to go down. Each path will determine your fate.
A. The cold and dark path that leads you into a dark and creepy forest that's filled with deadly beasts. Unless they see you, you will make it out alive.
B. The bright and warm path that leads you into an enchanted forest, that's filled with unknown monsters and creatures.
C. The dark and rocky path that leads you towards an old castle. You will most likely live if you go down this path.
D. The suspicious normal path, that does not guarantee that you will live or die.
E. The rainy and muddy path that will ensure you make it out alive."

"Does this one make more sense to humans, somehow?"

"It references stories humans tell each other, and they're familiar with forests and paths and rain and mud."

"Huh. Rain sounds like an interesting experience and I don't want to die, so E."

"What kind of power would you like to have?
A. Something that's causes light yet is destructive
B. Something beautiful yet deadly and powerful
C. Something that allows me control time
D. Something that allows me to summon any kind of creature or weapon I desire at any given time
E. Something that lets me help the sick and injured
F. Something that causes pure destruction
G. Something that lets me blend into the shadows and control them
H. Something that will prevent me from dying
I. Something destructive and gives me infinite power. It'll cause everyone and anyone to fear me"

The human language has such funny grammar that even dream translation isn't smoothing it all out! "Isn't this kind of mapped onto the answers more than most of the questions?"

"Yup."

"There's really no point to the shadows one, shadows don't do anything... the destructive ones are kind of all pretty similar in how useful they'd be... help the sick and injured do what?"

"Be less sick and injured, I'd assume."

"Oh. I think there's about enough of that going around," says Beka, who has seen incredibly comprehensive healing from otherwise unsurvivable damage used on the same victims over and over. "The time one sounds really good though!"

"Why would you want this power?
A. To make myself blend in and not be noticed. No one will ever suspect me to be the one in the wrong...if they can't see me. I'll get away with anything then.
B. To destroy what I want, to protect what I want, and to prove to others that I am the strongest
C. To turn back time, and change the past, present and future. Maybe even to stop time to make myself stop aging
D. To destroy anything that gets in my way.
E. To keep myself from dying
F. To get revenge on those who have wronged me and cause nothing but suffering and pain for them!
G. To protect those I love. I don't want to destroy or cause conflict. Only take care of the people I care about.
H. Only for power. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be powerful
I. To protect what I care about, and destroy those who harm those I love and myself"

"Huh. I don't love any of these answers. Should I pick one that means kind of a correct thing but makes it sound weird, or one that doesn't mean the right thing but has the right kind of attitude about it?"

"Why don't you tell me about both of those?"

"Well, I picked the time one for which power, but the time answer for this one, C, isn't like what I was thinking when I picked that. I was just imagining, like, I could sure go wherever I wanted and do whatever I wanted if everybody else were stuck in time and I wasn't. I definitely didn't have aging in mind since I don't even know what that is. But it makes it sound like it at least has the right idea that it can do lots of stuff and the stuff is useful and cool. And then option I sounds close to a list of what I'd be doing with this magic as, like, my main thing, but I would totally also use it for other things too if I had it."

"I think option I makes more sense, then?"

"Okay, I."

"Which of these objects attracts you the most?
A. A sword made of ice
B. A sword made of fire
C. A pocket watch with an eye on the center
D. A spellbook
E. A dark crown
F. A dagger
G. A ring
H. An amulet
I. A scythe"

"Are the ones that don't sound like they'd have to be magic, magic anyway?"

"Let's say yes. Oh, and I should explain – a scythe is a tool for harvesting some edible plants, but humans also use it as a symbol of death, because humans just die when they get old enough, so it could be compared to death 'harvesting' them."