"Still, that is both interesting and funny. I suppose the concept is not too much of a hindrance?"

"Yeah, the weird and troubling stuff more happens when you're trying to make magic learn to do something rather than recognize something. Some of the people who got my magic before and left notes... their research is useful but it is not something I would have done. Messing with people's heads is pretty hard to do safely and even with an undo button people got hurt in the process."

Temperance shivers. "Ugh. What sort of stuff they did?"

"That's not precisely the right question. It's more what happened in the course of their research. I mean I personally don't think I'd ever use a memory removal effect but the final effect is pretty safe. And the quick language acquisition effect is part of what my standard translation magic is based on. The unintended effects of the memory modification was mostly either erasing the wrong thing or too much, or too little. The translation thing had weird effects, like making the person only able to speak the new language, or not able to speak at all, or switching between languages without noticing."

"Ah, ok. That is way less horrible than I was expecting. Still, I have a half-sister that would likely be terrified out of her mind over that."

"The fact that my magic system can do mind reading and mind alteration is part of the reason why I have strong anti-magic shields on my body."

"Makes sense. Any idea if it works on other kinds of magic?"

"I honestly don't. I don't think we've encountered any magic that wasn't built on top of the magecrafter system before."

"How would it interact with voluntary mind-reading? I have that."

"My antimagic is a brute force thing, no exceptions for being convinced to let beneficial magics affect me. How do you have mindreading?"

"Remember when I mentioned the subspecies of human? I am one. We all got voluntary telepathy."

"That explains it then. You're welcome to try, I'm not too worried about my mental privacy and my superiors wiped anything too classified from my head before I left."

"Okay..."

"Uh, is not actually something that would happen by accident, but it sounds relevant to mention. Individuals of my species have extras on top of their standard telepathy. ...Mine is mental alteration."

"Well, now that you said that, I'll be vetted a lot more thoroughly when I get home regardless of what happens. Might as well."

"Heh, okay."

Mind poke. Hello?

"Did you do something? I didn't feel anything."

"I did. I sent a 'hello'?"

He shakes his head. "Nope, that's at least suggestive that my antimagic works on your magic. It could be the weirdness of this place though."

"The telepathy works on Bar."

"I more meant that whatever is powering my magic here works differently than what I'm used to so it could also be translating our magic in the same way it translates our speech."

"Ah, that does sound like something Milliways might do."

"Yeah, this place is kinda weird, it's nice, but it's weird. So, any other burning questions in your mind?"

"Nothing in particular. I probably should get back to my oath drafting."

"Alright, it was great meeting you. Perhaps we'll meet again someday."

"Let's hope!"