It wouldn't. "While you're here, got a list of potions ingredients we wanted to check if you could conjure."

"Sure, hit me."

List! Are there any seeds of magic plants, or leaves of magic plants, or roots of magic plants, that don't count as magic? Is 'plucked at the full moon' something Cam can conjure for? Kneazle hair? Gloves made from dragon leather? And so on.

There is one seed of a magical plant that Cam can get ahold of - "Bet you it has a symbiont or something that makes it magical and isn't by itself -" - he can't do 'plucked at' for magical purposes - no Kneazle hair, no dragon leather.

"Thanks. I'm going to ask a Vala about the non-decay effect, depending how it works we might be able to do potions in a Valinor and automate more of the process, since the requirement for fresh-cut everything is a hassle. I also want to go fly off the end of the world but I'll wait to see if Theodore kills himself first."

"Is that what he's up to."

"Yeah. He summoned someone first, don't worry."

"He does know that maintaining a wizard gene as a daeva is not trivial and requires knowing cell biology?"

"I don't actually get the sense he's super attached to being a wizard. If he couldn't fly that'd bother him but if he's a fairy he could fly just fine."

"And I can't guarantee he'd be a fairy."

"He took stupid risks even when we had no reason to think anything happened once we died. He's Theodore."

"Okay then."

"You should give me a heads-up about stuff like that."

"You were out of town."

"You can write Cam."

"Aaand then he'd stop telling me stuff."

Sigh.

"But if I'm just around enough to guess then that's not your fault?"

"I mean, yes, but seriously, he's nearly of age, he knows what he's risking, it's not your job."

"None of the other Tyelcormos died young being stupid, I guess - or did they -"

"Mine did not. He also isn't reckless anymore, war does that to people."

"I'd expect Minor dying would have a chilling effect too but I guess not."

"It's probably not that dangerous. It's hard for wizards to die by accident."

"I bet it's not hard for them to die if the answer to 'what's there off the edge of the world' is 'hard vacuum'."

"I do expect he'll check. But yeah."