"That... would help. At least with internet access I could read some. But I was hoping I could undo at least some of the... damage... due to the food thing."

"How?"

"Magic." Hair-change-demonstration. "I can change anything, so it stands to reason I could change unclean food into clean food, right?"

"...not really. It's not a very scientific belief."

"Magic is not a very scientific belief either."

"You can - show it off. The uncleanliness is unverifiable except by looking at the history of an object, and it'd still be a fact about the history of the object."

She sighs. "But then isn't literally everything infected at some remove? And don't reds, like, walk around places to do their jobs?"

"They wear shoe covers or have separate paths. It's understood that uncleanliness isn't airborne, waterborne, or persistent after a complete decay process, so not everything is polluted."

"They presumably touch the covers, though, and those covers touch the ground...?"

"They step into the covers, they don't have to touch them with their bare hands, it's enough layers."

She sighs again. "Okay, so much for that, then."

Shrug.

"And you don't know anyone I could talk to about how to best deploy magic abilities here?"

"We don't really have an office for that."

"Wouldn't expect so, but..."

"I mean. I can refer you up. But there's not going to be a form to fill out so that you can go do whatever you want to do in a really organized fashion."

"I wasn't thinking anything official, just, if you know someone who knows someone—"

"...I'm a blue, all the someones I know who know someones are official."

"I mean it doesn't need to be an official channel, it would be presumably more helpful for me to interact with an official someone."

"I'm not sure what distinction you're drawing."

"The distinction between filling a form and talking to someone extra-officially."

"I mean. I can tell you where to find Governor Avalor. She's at least not as incompetent as I am."

"That would probably be useful, if the word 'governor' means what it looks like it means."

"...what?"

"I learned your language magically, but I don't know how your government works."