"As far as I know. There's entire colleges of magic, after all, and people from just about everywhere attend."

"...I'm really worried and sad about the friend I disappeared on but I love this realm."

"...It's theoretically possible that ley-lines could be navigated back to other realms. You'd want to talk to the researchers up at the university in Elgadhzi for that; they're the closest out of anyone."

"And space-time ninjutsu might be able to do something, though I don't think it'd be all that safe to try and reverse-engineer." 

"—yeah I am extremely interested in that."

"If you have any magic that can handle space-time, I'd definitely suggest visiting the university at some point, though you might want to build up some local resources first, so they take you seriously, especially if you don't already know the - jutsu?"

"Okay by 'unsafe' I mean you're always hearing cautionary tales about people who tried and wound up dead, and it typically involves seals which I know next to nothing about and are also dangerous to mess up, but with those caveats I can try teaching the university people the building blocks? I'd want to know I can trust them, though, that level of magic is - highly exploitable."

She nods. "Still, this is very interesting and useful information."

"Definitely! Maybe a place to head after the mission? We can probably get Reim to help with the local resources thing as payment."

"Yeah, sounds like a plan."

Sarati half-turns back to her ship. "Anything else you need me for? I'll want to get settled some, if not."

"I think that's all for now?" she half-asks, looking at Tetsuma.

"I don't have anything else to ask, no."

"Well, then, we'll meet up tomorrow morning." She jumps back into her ship. A while later she'll jump out and head to one of the shelters in the cliff-face, a bag slung over her shoulder. 

"This is so cool."

"Seriously! We have nothing like this back home. I've never even been on a normal ship."

"And all this shareable magic!"

"And everyone we've met so far is pretty nice, too!" Not being in a war zone has been weird for Tetsuma. Good, but weird.

"Yeah, although I'm still slightly suspicious of Reim and his jewel."

"I suspect it's worth a lot more than what he's saying, though as long as he's planning on coming through on paying and not using it nefariously that doesn't really worry me? My main concern is if he's underplaying the danger of the mission."

"...I'm actually concerned about stealing something that's not his."

"That didn't really strike me as the case? Like, I've dealt with shifty clients before, so unless he's a really good liar - which is possible, especially since I'm not used to reading emotions off of foxes - he considers it his. Though it's also entirely possible that both of them consider the jewel theirs, if there was an inheritance dispute or something." Mostly actually Tetsuma honestly doesn't care that much about proper ownership, though she's going to avoid letting that on if she can. "Trying to quiz this Lingormr fellow about Reim and the jewel might not hurt, though."

"Yeah, hearing both sides is usually a good idea."

"Not always a luxury I've had, but yeah, when you can."

"Yeah, it's just, doing whatever the first person you meet somewhere tells you is not a good heuristic for—anything, really."