"Perhaps not the wisest way to choose a destination, even if it has served you well enough in this case."

"Maybe it would be safer to avoid magic places but that wouldn't be as much fun."

"As you will."

"So, I take it you're why this whole area is really magical?"

"In that it is me, yes."

"That would explain why there's so much cognition, communications, and knowledge magic."

"- Yes."

"So is it ok for me to stay here for a while or should I find somewhere else to go. I wouldn't want to impose."

The cats' tails twitch consideringly.

"You can stay. I'll show you to a town, if you'd like. - The cats are also me, these ones."

"I can tell, well, I can tell that they're magical in the way the land is but more, and that they have extra magic on top of that. I'd be happy to visit a town."

Tail-lash. "It is supposed to be a secret, which of the cats are me."

"I'll avoid telling anyone else what I see then. Any particular reason why you keep that secret?"

"If it's ambiguous which cats are me, interacting with any cat works as worship, which fits more neatly into most peoples' lives than asking them to visit a temple or make offerings."

The cats begin making their way down from the tree.

"Ooh, so you're powered by worship. That's interesting."

"Yes. That's true of all gods, here; we each have a domain and a terrain type and a focus, and the ability to modify our domains and make human and animal avatars, and to bestow up to six blessings on whoever we like and one larger power on ourselves and our acolytes if we choose to have them, and a few other miscellaneous powers."

"Like your translation ability. It's very nice, I have translation magic but it's a little uncomfortable to have new languages crammed into my head periodically."

"Yes, we don't need to worry about that. I may be able to offer you a translation blessing, if your stay is going to be too short to justify your version."

"I'm willing to pay the cost of mine. I'm just mentioning it because I'm always looking for ways to improve my magic, and copying magic is one of the ways I do that."

"Ah." She sounds interested, if still rather reserved. "- can you tell me more about how your magic works?"

"The short version is that I can teach magic to recognize things and then do things when it recognizes them. The long version includes all the various basic things magic can do, most of which are really dangerous if you don't use them carefully, and all the things other people over the years have taught magic how to recognize."

"Dangerous in what way?"

"If you're using the magic in it's most basic form there's no safeguards. If you tell it to push on you and you don't specify how it could snap your neck. If you tell it to freeze time in an area that you're partially inside it'll cut your hand off. Warnings to prevent you from doing that are things you need to add intentionally."

"Ah-hah." Yeah that's something she's going to need to keep an eye on. "It seems like letting you copy blessings will be safer for all involved, then."

"Perhaps, copying magic isn't always straightforwards though. I suppose it's possible that eventually there will be some problem caused by stuffing too many languages in my head but I only have five so far and I've heard of people speaking more than that without any magic involved."

"Memory blessings are fairly common, if you do have trouble. I don't offer one, but I expect at least one of my neighbors does."