In that case Dareni will go retrieve a notebook and pencil from her room.

"Okay, so, illusion, and knowing, and..."

"Carrying, stopping, plants, killing, slavery, heat, arranging - small things, like making water - burning like the sun to make heavy metals or the opposite, DNA, space. I can say more about them but that’s the list."

"...telekinesis?" she guesses, for "carrying", and "stasis?" for "stopping". Plants and killing she accepts without modification. "It just does slavery??" and "nanotech?" and "fusion??" and "genetics, is stuff about DNA" and "space is the ones people don't like, right?"

"Telekinesis and stasis are right. Nanotech is not right. Fusion is right. Slavery magic also does - if you do things you don't want to do, like you have a thing you eat that makes you think and feel differently and you want it all the time. Space is the ones people don't like. The magic of space makes planets into space."

"Oh they can cure addictions? That's neat! - or do they just make you not drink or whatever, that's not as cool. - oh like it replaces stuff with vacuum? Yikes! Why is there still a planet, wouldn't somebody have done that by accident? Uh, small things like water are - molecules? What's wrong about nanotech..."

"They just make you not drink or whatever. Molecules is right. Nanotech is something you make that isn't magic and it makes things? This kind of magic is just the making things, not making things that make things. And there is still a planet because people don't do magic by accident because of slavery magic. I know that's... easy for me to say, because I'm a wizard of knowing and it doesn't matter if I was ever a slave, I couldn't have magic accidents that hurt people. But it's true."

"Nano... assembly. Uh, how long have people been all these kindsa wizards?"

"I need more bigger numbers."

"Ten a hundred a thousand a million a billion a trillion a quadrillion?"

"More than ten times a thousand of our years. I don't know how to put them together with the smaller numbers."

"You'd say, like, forty eight thousand nine hundred and fourteen, or whatever."

Dareni struggles with the numbers, muttering to herself in Devin and finger-counting. "Eighteen thousand... five hundred forty local years and some more days."

"Did... a slavery wizard and a knowing wizard just team up right away to go enslave all the space wizards, or something?"

"We had five... very big islands? And now we have three. Because no."

"Oh. Wow. - continents?"

"Yes."

"Amenta only has one continent to begin with. ... can you do knowing about Amenta or is it too far away?"

"Too far away. I didn’t know anything was too far away until you came."

"I guess that must be pretty weird for you... are there the same amount of all the kinds of wizards?"

"About the same amount are born."

"Did you say that weird because you're not very good at Tapap yet or is there something else strange going on?"

"There are not the same amount of adults."

"If you're about to tell me that people eat them or something then first you should tell me where it's socially acceptable to vomit."

"The toilet is the most convenient."