Tasty! And people! He wants to meet people!

People are happy to meet him! The patronage is mostly travelers like them, or sailors like the captain. He can probably very easily end up with a little circle interested in swapping stories. There's a couple of other first generations, who have variously odd tales of where they first ended up, and how they got lost. (Tetsuma's mostly content to hang at the edge of the crowd and smile sappily at his boyfriend, but he's fine with trading some stories from his homeworld.)

Eeeeeee this is fun! And interesting!

Any other cool magic systems?

Stories of them, pretty much. Magic's rare, most realms, and none of the other first generations here can actually use their native realm's magic. Someone traveling from Madeza mentions that the nation as far as she can tell has a semi-unique system, though she's not well versed beyond, like, luck charms. 

What's it like?

Where she was from, lots of charms and other persistent magical items-slash-effects, fewer immediately effective spells. Shapeshifting is also a thing, but it's a different thing - she's unclear on the details, but witches can turn into a single animal, and don't do the buzzing thing that standard shapeshifters do. Remote viewing seems to be possible? Somehow. There's also ritual magic, which she's participated in because just about everyone does, but other than vague 'it protects the realm' and 'it brings luck to the household' she couldn't tell you what it does.

That's interesting! And. Kinda really varied.

Yeah, she's pretty sure there were multiple magic systems that met and blended. Or there might be some unifying underlying principle that she's missing.

Weird. But cool.

She thinks much the same of ravelry!

Meeting new people is great.

Tetsuma kisses his boyfriend's cheek. "You're adorable."

"I might get used to being called that."

"Then I'll just have to keep calling you 'adorable' until you're adjusted, won't I." Quick kiss. "Adorable."

Eeeeee!

"Doubly adorable."

"How does that work?"

"You're just generally adorable, and you're even more adorable when happy. You're currently around double baseline adorableness."

"Ah, I see. That makes sense." Kiss!

Kisses!

And after dinner they can return to their room.

Yup! It's getting kinda late for Tetsuma, but they can play another round of Go and chat or something before bed?

Sure!

Tetsuma's still going to be at a fairly wide experience advantage, especially since he's focusing better than earlier. He starts yawning about half an hour in, though.

So perhaps they should continue in the morning?