"You don't need to tell me! I can still feel it in my bones. How did it went?"

Temple's house is ecletically decorated and he is currently in his studio, with several charts and diagrams on the walls and desks.

"I think it's a lot bigger than I thought. It'll take weeks to clear properly, unless I contrive to have you summon more fairies and pay them whatever they want. Food, trinkets, copies of your magic plants."

"Weeks is good enough for me. The people here took the thing as a horrible fact of life. How likely is the plan to summon multiple fairies?"

"I'd have to check whether summoning even works properly here, it could be that getting me was a once-in-a-lifetime fluke. But if it works once, it probably works however many times you want it to. A small army of fairies could sink the dead city in days and be paid by the output of one particularly busy cupcake bakery. There's a risk of getting a jerk who figures out a loophole in their bindings, but if I'm careful with those it's a small risk I think."

"How do you stop a fairy if that is necessary? I can actually get an army-worth of food if that is what it takes. Do you want exclusivity for magic plants?"

"Exclusivity with magic plants would be nice, yes... You stop a fairy by unsummoning them, which you do by wanting them gone very hard until it takes."

"Good to know. I can't promise other won't design plants for themselves and this kind of work requires review by the High-Library of Magic even if is never used again, but they are amicable to special arragements if it is what it takes to destroy the dead city. Oh, sorry. Are you hungry? Or tired?"

"I don't need a guarantee of exclusivity, I just want the things you're making for me to be only for me. I'll be selling them soon enough, anyway. I could use something to eat, but I'd just as soon have lots of coffee or tea and get back to sinking the dead city instead of sleeping."

"Fair enough." Temple says and he leads Nick to his kitchen and presents offers of coffee and teas, including two kinds he never heard before, plus snacks.

He tries one of the new kinds. And eats snacks. And casually looks around the house, because it's actually pretty interesting to see new kinds of magic. "What other kinds of things does your magic make?"

The new kind is delicious. The home actually has signs of technology, from early 21th century. But everything is mixed with things that might be magic. There is an garishly blue cactus next to the small tv. The lights are crystals (quite similar to the ones that fell on Nick) and the lightswitches have arcane symbols on them. There is no visible ventilation system, but the air is comfortable and cool. There is a microwave siting right next to a wooden closet that works as a fridge. In hindsight, a lot of the decorative things might be magical, given that they are covered with symbols, but it's hard to tell what they do if they do anything at all.

"Besides what I already told? A variety of things, usually better than what plants can do, like shaping living things, ilusions, influence the weather, calming animals, creating portals. I'm a sorcerer and we have extra lifeforce and gifts and one of mine is the ability to create portals through water."

Temple demonstrates this ability, half emptying a plant vase into a pot and submerging his hand... which then exits through the vase, thumbs up.

The portals thing gets an eyebrow-raise and an appreciative whistle. "That's extremely cool. I'm used to higher technology than what you're using, and I have to wonder what you could make by combining higher tech with magic."

"How much higher is your technology? There had been some efforts to combine technology with magic, but most people from Elsewhere don't care much about anything from Earth. And the High-Library is even more so."

"Oh, so you do have an Earth. Have you heard of computers?" He pulls out his computer and opens a search engine. "This is a good example of our tech. Tell me something and I'll say it in English and it will find information about the thing."

"I actually grew up on Earth." He says switching to English, "But Elsewhere is the best and only place to learn magic. There is no wi-fi signal for miles, but I have a laptop." Temple looks closer. "I'm not familiar with this model or brand."

"...Wi-Fi? Not an extranet connection? No, I think this thing's probably more advanced than yours. It has two hundred terabytes of storage, for example."

"Extranet?" Temple looks at the size of Nick's computer suprised. "My laptop's storage is one terabyte and is a fairly new model."

"Extranet is what they call the internet in 2180."

"Are you a future fairy? What kind of anime has my life turned into?"

"I'm from the present, your rune circle brought me into the past. And I'm pretty sure my eyes are normal-sized."

"And your hair is a naturally-occurring color... and you are not cute girl, unless you turn into one under the right circumstances, maybe it's one of those animes. But seriously, 2180! Tell me more about it? Do you have FTL-travel?"

"Not unless you count summoning. It's mostly just more advanced computing, industry, medicine, space colonies. Fairies make space travel cheap. And fairies aren't very technopathic on average, I'm just a big nerd."

"Just space colonies!" Temple says in disbelief. "Why aren't fairies technopathic?"

"I more meant they're not huge nerds, like me, they just play video games if they get a computer instead of deciding to learn to code. Daeva don't really need to do much if they don't want to. And fairyland is a pretty chaotic place, compared to Earth or wherever. There's not really a government, I think that's part of it. The other kinds, probably about the same."

"A similar situation to mine, but with magic. Fairyland sounds like an interesting place to live. Is there anyway to travel there?