"Can anyone immigrate to Genosha if they want to learn magic?"

"Well, you have to have some way of getting there, or of getting the attention of the people whose job it is to help people get there, but theoretically yes."

"Are there non-magical means of flight?"

"Pretty much no. There are non-magical ways of getting attention, though."

"Would Genosha lift up people getting attention because of a crisis? Refugees of a war?"

"Great Mages aren't allowed to interfere with international politics. Probably he could manage to get--some. As many as he could make excuses for. But--"

"Who made that rule?"

"All the Great Mages who were alive five hundred years ago."

"Did they intervene and it somehow made things much worse?"

"May...be? No one who wasn't there knows exactly what happened five hundred years ago, but after the dust settled a lot of people were dead and there were a lot more restrictions on what mages couldn't do."

"I see."

"I should find out what happened five hundred years ago."

"I think so. Can Sympathy do that?"

"In general, yes. In this case? I'm probably going to have to wait until I get stronger. If finding out were trivial it would be common knowledge by now."

"One can magically shield information? Huh. And fair enough. Let me know once you find out. It sounds troubling."

"More like obscure than shield but I'm not sure how much the distinction matters right now. I'll let you know when I find out."

"Celebrimbor says he's ready to talk when it's convenient for you." He stands.

"All right then." She hovers. Vertically.

And he sighs and shakes his head at her, and then bounds up the stairs.

"Flying doesn't help much, but it does help, I'm not just showing off," she says as she follows him.

"And you think I'd mind if you were? If I could fly I'd definitely fly. Specifically to show off, probably."

"Oh, that's envy, I got it mixed up with exasperation for a minute there."

"I expect I'd be an unhappy person if people doing cool things I couldn't do annoyed me."

"Wow, yeah, your family's talents are way too diverse for that to be a workable trait."

"Anyway I like the flying everywhere, it suits you."