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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[alicornucopia]

"Yes I do," says the lady, pointing at her hair. "Anyway, it sounds like things are very different where you come from."

[powerispain]

"If the identifying characteristic is hair color I'm not sure why the word you picked in my language was dragon. Dragons are supposed to be usually-large reptiles that may or may not have wings or breathe fire."

[alicornucopia]

"...well, if I walked down the street like that I don't see how there'd be any room for anybody else, you know?"

[powerispain]

"...Aha. Stories about dragons in my world usually don't involve shapeshifting."

[alicornucopia]

"Sounds inconvenient."

[powerispain]

"Probably less inconvenient for the fact that they're not real."

[alicornucopia]

"Well, there is that. Anyway, I'm a dragon, you can tell a female dragon in humanoid form by the hair color unless she's a black dragon or something, but I'm a malachite so it's really obvious. My name's Reesa."

[powerispain]

"My name's Odette. How d'you tell a male dragon?"

[alicornucopia]

"Eye color. They get shouted at less for translation help," Reesa snorts.

[powerispain]

"I can imagine. What colors of dragon are there?"

[alicornucopia]

"Uh, there's thirty of 'em," says Reesa, "you want the whole list?"

[powerispain]

"I guess probably not right now."

[alicornucopia]

"Wizard office I know about is just this way."

[powerispain]

She follows her. "Thank you for being so helpful."

[alicornucopia]

"No problem."

[powerispain]

And eventually they will get to the wizard office.

[alicornucopia]

And Reesa introduces the situation to the receptionist in the local language, and the receptionist calls a wizard, who casts a translation spell on Odette, and Reesa waves and leaves.

"Translation spell provided free of charge. The dragon says you can de-age people?" says the receptionist.

[powerispain]

"Yeah. I've never taken more than a couple decades off someone before, but the principle's the same however much comes off."

[alicornucopia]

"We can find customers interested in this service but it will be challenging to price. The dragon said you need a scry, possibly transworld, on your sister, and then you and she need to go home, possibly transworld?"

[powerispain]

"Um, if she's back home and not already dead it might be most important to get her out of where she is because I came here fleeing a murder attempt."

[alicornucopia]

"All right, so a scry possibly transworld, a summon or call, and two sendings or pushes. Do you want to try dealing in Corenta currency for this or just trade straight across?"

[powerispain]

"I think I'd rather deal in currency. If there's anything left over when it's time to go home I can donate it to charity or something."

[alicornucopia]

"All right..." She rummages in a filing cabinet and produces a price sheet which Odette can magically read. "These are the standard prices for services of that magnitude." There are numbers in a currency with which Odette has no familiarity.

[powerispain]

"I don't really know how much that is. How much would it cost to buy, oh, a novel or a loaf of bread?"

[alicornucopia]

Substantially less than any of these spells!