"'Things like that'?"

Omnom not looking up. "Like... saying I'm pretty. If nothing else men aren't meant to be pretty..."

"Does 'handsome' work better?"

Blush blush. "Not... much... Two men aren't supposed to..."

"But you like men."

"I'm not punching your face out am I?" he says in a small voice.

"—really, is that how much men would hate being hit on by other men?"

"Yeah. It's..." More food. "I'm, I think magic is for me, but it would be a lie to say that mages being much less concerned with that wasn't a part of the decision."

"So I can flirt with you "

"I didn't say I'm attracted to you."

"You also didn't say you were attracted to men and yet I knew."

He laughs a bit and dares to look up at Ruby again. "Are you always this confident?"

"Who knows, I was born two days ago."

"...right."

"—that touched a button there."

"It... would feel like... taking advantage of you."

"What, 'cause of the amnesia? I'll observe I'm the one doing the flirting here. You can always say 'no'."

Well, here he is, eating and very conspicuously not saying no.

"Anyway, it looks like you're uncomfortable so why don't we go back to talking about magic?"

Onmund laughs again. "You're very direct. Yeah, okay, let's talk about magic."

"Why don't you tell me about your favourite school?"

"—I guess maybe I should mention the thing every introductory book about magic says, that magic isn't really divided neatly into schools. It's a continuum. What I'm most interested in is elemental magic, but most elemental magic falls under what they call Destruction."

"Elemental, like fire?" Little flame above his palm to demonstrate. "I guess I can see how that would be destructive."

Onmund nods. "Like fire, ice, lightning, water, earth, light... Fire and ice and lightning are the most used for Destruction, water for Restoration, earth for Alteration, and light for Illusion."

"Huh, cool. What do you like about it?"