"...wet?"

"It's rainforests. Hot and wet is how it goes."

"Oh that sounds extremely unpleasant."

Bjorn tugs at the collar of his robes.

Vallynn laughs. "Yeah you'll need a hefty ice and wind enchantment to be able to wear that back home without sweating bullets. If you've never been around hot and wet let me tell you it absolutely does not make you want to wear too many clothes; the air itself feels like clothes."

"I've heard Comodo described as hot and wet but it doesn't sound as bad as rainforests."

"I've never been—it's my first time on the continent, actually—but from what I've heard Comodo's weather gets pretty mild? Cool evenings with a sea breeze and all that, nice for vacations."

"Hot and wet at night."

"Yep. I don't hate it, mind you, you kinda get used to it and I love the rainstorms. But I am absolutely not wearing mage robes like yours back there, I'll melt into a puddle."

"Prontera is pretty nice," Pierre offers.

"It is! I'd kind of feared it might be a lot colder but I'm growing pretty fond of it myself. The sun feels a lot friendlier here."

"I don't think I'd ever thought of the sun as something that could be friendly."

"Take a trip to the desert sometime, you'll learn."

"You've been?"

"Years ago. Before Surt sank Morroc. With my parents."

"Oh you've been, like, to the desert desert not just the borders with cute peco peco."

"Yeah. And it gets really really hot. But dry. You have to wear a lot of thick clothes because it gets so hot you don't notice you're sweating because it evaporates too quickly and then you get really dehydrated and die."

"Well that's not morbid or anything," mutters Bjorn.

"It serves no one to shy away from it."

"—what?" Bjorn says, startling. He'd nearly forgotten she was there.

"Death by dehydration is only one of many possible fates that await you as an adventurer. You need to face it head-on."

"...right."

"You know, now that I think about it there's gonna be a period of time in anyone's adventures where they're limited in where they can go because of their final gear."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean—okay, so, if I want to go to the desert or whatever right now I'll just change into desert gear, right? But imagine I pick this outfit as my final outfit and start enchanting it. Then until I have enchantments that can deal with any kind of weather I'm stuck to places that don't need any enchantments I don't have."