"Thank you," she says, amused. "I like it. I'll get something to let you pull essence, yeah. We have the ridiculously wide variety of magic from - well, lots of people all over the world taking it in vastly different directions. And then we got good at fast transportation, and started combining them, and now it's a bit of a mess."

She draws out a simple line of chalk, long and straight, and picks a flower to leave at the end of it.

"There you are. I can offer instruction if it'll help, but you do the - copy thing, so."