"That is sort of a tall order. ...Huh, how long until the blues arrive?"

"Twenty minutes, maybe?"

"Okay... I wouldn't be able to nap in that short of a time anyway, even thought that is going to shape that conversation. Well, besides the ones I mentioned there is the witch-queens and which actually have a sort of magic that might be shareable. Called witchcraft it allows one to do a whole deal of things, telekinesis, flight, animate objects, make plants grow, produce energy, mind-reading, illusions, and lots more but comes with the downside that it requires a power source that can only be harnessed in a pocket dimension. They claim that only witch-queens can get to their level of witchcraft, but they keep it a secret to a point that is suspicious. Witchcraft is shared only a few and only in limited ways. Witch-queens can track down people that know more than they should, so I never looked into it."

"Is that everything?"

"No, but dreamshapers, witch-queens and skymages are the most powerful by far and deserved to be talked about separately. From there there are various miscellaneous things like people that never get tired, people that can weave light into glowing cloth, talking fish that are people. There are various magical creatures like unicorns which have purifying properties, bats that can sense portals, shapeshifting animals... there used to be phoenixes but they went extinct because their eggs can make people immortal for five hundred years, one of the translation effects that I know off is granted by a two-headed snake that needs to lick your ears... there are magical artifacts that make you tired in exchange of granting telekinesis or telepathy, there is a type of glass that lets you see through dimensions. I think the other translation effect is an ambient effect attached to a specific dimension, some dimensions are always night but plants still grow normally there... the full list is going to be long."

He looks undeterred!!

Felix would find it endearing if his heart hadn't been ripped out of his chest recently. Felix offers more magical examples, they all keep interesting things but not as strong as the top three: Sea serpents! Flying animals of various types! A pocket dimension that gives telekinetic "phantom limbs" to people that lose limbs there! Berries that boost your singing ability, mute people that can eat said berries and sing divinely and control birds! scientifically inaccurate "prehistoric" animals that can be revived from their bones in this pocket dimension near Italy (this is a sentence in Italian)! Flying islands! Moving statues! Half-plant people! This place amplifies emotions! People that can animate wooden toys that protect children...

He eventually has to give a side explanation as to why so much of that magic was lost and why so many of the surviving magic people have recessive genes. Here are the wonders of thaumatophobic persecution! And why most of various magical people choose to live in either in the Stormlands and the Witchlands.

"I'm surprised governments didn't - treat magic as an asset more -"

"It's getting better. People in the past didn't know any better and thought magic was evil. And nowadays there is a lot of inertia because transitioning to a more magic friendly society can be complicated I doubt they have anything specific to deal with the needs of sapient fish simply because it wouldn't come up often enough and there are still conservative people that think magic should belong somewhere else or that the fish aren't actually people or that the relevant debate isn't worth taxpayer time. They have laws about skymages, but they're aren't always friendly."

"Oh?"

"It's more legal for me to spend my day shaping clouds into swear words than stopping a house fire. As long I keep the cloud volume relatively the same."

"...more legal?"

"I meant I would be better protected against possible consequences. The owner of the house could sue because I don't have a license to use my magic for firefighting purposes. While my right of free expression is better protected as long I don't waste natural resources to do it."

"...huh."

"Yeah. It's weird. Magic as a resource is very inefficiently used."

"I doubt that would be the case here, but it doesn't sound like there's an obvious avenue to get access to it."

Slow nod.

"Do you have guesses about what's causing the translation?"

"I really don't remember anything that could give persistent translation like that. And if there was something like that near the Shattered Skies it would've at least show up in the brochures. My best guest is that the bolt of energy that got me here somehow gave the translation to me, maybe I was briefly teleported to a pocket dimension with the property and then sent here."

He is taking notes. "Is there magic on Earth that could be used to find you?" he says in English.

He blinks at the English. "Uh, I think there is non-witchcraft magic that can find things. But I have a fork there and from their end that must've looked like was that my body got killed by weird magic, they won't suspect that I got into another universe, they won't even know I exist-" he closes his eyes and breathes deeply. "And if my form of immortality failed to keep the connection then I am very skeptical that some other form of magic could look across the universes and find me. I can't overstate how unnecessarily strong it is. My brother said something similarly functional could've been achieved with less than a twentieth of the power. It creates full back-ups of my mind at a rate of two hundred updates per second and it can evaluate between updates to check for signs of mental tampering at a rate of fifty times per second and I meant all updates since I first got it. My brothers suspect that if something could somehow tamper with the back-up it would adapt and fight back-"

He feels out of breath.

"It sounds nice. Did you have children back home -"

"No?" Felix looks at Afen confused.

"You seem really really upset about being here even though you're the only magic-user in this world and its discoverer."