"Woooooow," says the girl. "Only humans, really? I wonder why! What kinds of magic did you get in your accident?"

"I can speak, understand, read, and write any language, which is really convenient because I don't think this one's spoken on my original planet; and I have a sense that's sort of like Stonesense but doesn't extend as far and applies to things that aren't rocks; and I can regenerate damage; and if I touch a darkspawn it disintegrates - I imagine that one would be a lot less useful in my world because we don't have darkspawn, but it also filets those giant spiders. And I'm blind and deaf and can't smell, but the languages thing cuts through that, so I can still talk to you. And if I could see I wouldn't be able to distinguish people's faces that way, but it doesn't matter because I can't see. And if somebody sings around me - did you hear about what happened at the Proving? That. And I'm really uncomfortably warm all the time but I have a frost amulet for that. And there's a benefit I haven't identified to go with a drawback I don't want to talk about, and the one that put me in this universe lets me temporarily share the pairs of things with other people - which is how I know about stuff like the faceblindness one; we found a ghoul in the Deep Roads who wanted to try everything out and told me how they were paired."

"Actually I can fix ghouls between the regeneration and the disintegratey thing and the touch sharing, so, you know, if you meet any maybe try to introduce us."

"I've never met a ghoul before, but if I do, I will! Can - wait - can I have some magic?" She bounces excitedly. "I've been excited about magic since I learned it existed, but I can't be a mage, but I wanted to go study magic anyway at the Circle of Magi in Ferelden, but I don't know how to send them a letter, but if I could do strange otherworldly magic that would be almost as good!"

"If you want, but I can't share the good stuff without the drawbacks. A bunch of Legionnaires have regeneration and disintegration now, I was just on my way back from giving them frost amulets."

"Which drawbacks go with which things? And I didn't hear what happened at the Proving, unless, wait, was that the thing where Prince Stalas started glowing and ripped apart a war axe with his bare hands? How'd he do that?"

"Oh, that wasn't me, that's the prince's own thing. I meant the part where someone interfered with it by singing. Uh, the sharing part goes with the disappearing, being too warm goes with disintegrating darkspawn, regeneration goes with pain near music - I find it incapacitating, Stalas doesn't - languages goes with faceblindness, and the sense things are all a package deal and for dwarves will also cut out stonesense, it replaces all senses that work at range with the one thing."

"The sense thing sounds amazing but terrifying," she says. "Faceblindness doesn't sound so bad. And speaking all those languages would be amazing for studying ancient texts and stuff!"

"Okay. ...If you like it for now but don't want it next week how do I find you, what's your name."

"Oh! I'm Dagna! Dagna Merow, of the Smith Caste. What's your name?"

"Annabelline Merry Svane but you can call me Annie."

"It's nice to meet you! So how do you give someone magic?"

"I just have to touch them and intend to." She holds out her hand.

Dagna touches Annie's hand and manages not to bounce.

And now she is faceblind and panlinguistic.

"Woooooooooow. It's even more amazing than I thought!" Bounce bounce. "Thank you so much!"

"You're welcome."

"This is so exciting!"

Annie giggles. "I'm pretty lucky with the artifact effects I got. They can mostly be mitigated and the sharing one in particular means I can be useful here. It's entirely possible for artifacts to instead layer in a way that just kills you or something."

"I'm glad that didn't happen to you, then! Magic - I mean real magic - I mean this world's magic can be dangerous too, but it's just so cool."

"I'm having fun learning runecrafting."

"Runecrafting's all right. It's the best part of smithcraft for sure. Unless maybe enchantment is better. But they're both still part of the same thing, sort of. In a way. Wait, which parts of runecrafting can humans do again? Or is it different because you're an otherworldly human? Would it be safe to test? Do you dream?"

"I don't know anything about enchantment, or for that matter know the details of which stuff I can do - I'm just starting out. I do dream, but we don't have a Fade at home that anyone knows of, I think dreaming just sort of happens by itself. I haven't noticed anything different about it since getting here."

"Wow! Dreams without the Fade! I only know a little bit about dreams, but that's supposed to be impossible!"