"Ooh, celebratory curry. That sounds good to me."

"Tomorrow it is."

"I was also going to bring tea to brew with our magically boiled water."

"...That's a great idea."

"I thought so too! What kind of tea do you like?"

"I enjoy most kinds of tea, but I like green the best."

"Ren has some of that. I'll bring it."

"Wonderful. Should I bring something to go with it?"

"I also considered instant cocoa, and couscous. I don't take my tea with anything, if that's what you mean; do you?"

"I was thinking more along the lines of teacakes or something."

"Ooh, cakes. Sure."

"I'm so excited. We're going to do magic."

"We are! We are going to... boil water... with magic. And once that works there will be no stopping us."

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, after all."

"But with magic, the first step is into a racecar. ...I was hoping that would come out better."

"In your case perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the first steps are a running takeoff into the air."

"Ha. Even if I'd already had a lot of flying practice I would be hard pressed to get aloft before I fell if I tried to run."

"Oh, right. Maybe magic can fix that, too."

"Maybe... I'm not immediately thinking of what rune meanings I'd put together for it but I'm not intimately familiar with all of them yet. More practice, I guess."

"At the very least there might be something that would catch you when you began to fall, even if correcting the core issue would be significantly more advanced."

"Or something that'd give me a softer landing. But just not hitting the ground wouldn't get me all the way to skating around on ice - I'd just fall repeatedly on the same patch - so it wouldn't get me out of the chair so it doesn't seem like a research priority unless a complete fix presents itself."

Kanimir makes a mental note to go over the dictionary again with this in mind just in case some inspiration does present itself. "True enough. Similar principles might be useful for physical defense, though...but we're not any likelier than average to get hit by cars or suffer other forms of accident. That's not none, though. I think I had better put that on the list."

"Sure, just be prepared to rearrange your priorities if we have an idea about how to make medallions or something."

"Absolutely."

May flips to her priority list. Clumsiness cure, she writes, under invisibility and medallions and healing and immortality - and, apparently, at some point she added automated rune derivation? and teleportation and Avalon hider? and divination in general and wards.