I can't fix you, but maybe I can still help

[powerispain]

He's trying to kill us--could ruin him--worry about that later--grab your sister and go.

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[powerispain]

"She's not in range. I checked."

[alicornucopia]

"Well, what's your range?"

[powerispain]

"I haven't measured it recently, but pretty large. Comparatively speaking. Hundreds of miles."

[alicornucopia]

"Okay, well, it seems like you need a wizard, but if you're from a spherical planet I bet you don't have any local money..."

[powerispain]

"Almost certainly not. Well, is there anything wizards mostly can't do that I might be able to?"

[alicornucopia]

"Uh - resurrect the dead? Casually make teleportation circles without charging a meaningful fraction of a national budget?"

[powerispain]

"Nope and don't even know what that means. Damn. There's probably something, but--oh. Hm. I could de-age people, I think I saw enough old people that that's not redundant, at least."

[alicornucopia]

"Oh! Yeah, wizards don't do that. You probably want a big commercial caster office with a huge network and maybe you can work something out where they call up their big customers and have you de-age them and then you can get a translation spell and a scry for your sister and a call or summon depending."

[powerispain]

"I think I understood maybe half of that."

[alicornucopia]

"...I can take you to a place where you might be able to trade de-aging for the wizard spells you need done."

[powerispain]

"But this isn't going to involve long-term commitment on my part, right?"

[alicornucopia]

"Right, you only need two, three spells done, how many people can you de-age in a day?"

[powerispain]

"In a whole day? Plenty. It doesn't take that long."

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah, they'd rather have you for a day than risk you going somewhere else," the green haired lady says confidently.

[powerispain]

"I'm going to want to figure out something longer-term at some point, once I find my sister, assuming I can't just teleport us back home. Which I will want to try, but this is completely unprecedented as far as I know."

[alicornucopia]

"I mean," says the green haired lady, "I assume the wizards'll be able to send you home, wherever that is."

[powerispain]

"...What, really?"

[alicornucopia]

"Probably? They might try to convince you to stay, de-aging could be a big deal, but you can just charge lots of money for that and go around to people until somebody will send you back?"

[powerispain]

"And this is a thing they can for sure do?"

[alicornucopia]

"I'm not a wizard myself, but I think so?"

[powerispain]

"Feels almost anticlimactic, but in a good way."

[alicornucopia]

"Well, let's find you a wizard so you can talk to people besides dragons and find your sister, then."

[powerispain]

"Dragons?"

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah? Dragons? That's why that guy called me over, he knew I'd be able to talk to you."

[powerispain]

"Yoooou don't look like a dragon. Also. Dragons aren't real where I come from."