"Very - I don't know exactly - and how many elements people can work with varies a lot."

"Hm. Seems a little like fey magic, almost."

"Fey magic?"

"Fairies are a thing we have that aren't human. They have personal magic that runs along themes."

"Huh. What themes?"

"I don't know all of them, but off the top of my head--plant, animal, music, teleportation, glass, fire..."

"Glass and fire are one of ours, so is plant sort of. Wood."

"Glass and wood both seem more specific than fire, but my sensibilities are not necessarily objective."

"Glass wood fire earth air water adamant ice shadow lightning shine stone."

"Huh."

"Glass is my best one. It's not just literal glass, it also does interesting vision tricks."

"Huh. That makes sense."

"Does it?"

"--Yes although off the top of my head I'm not sure how to explain why in layman's terms. It--involves science?"

"Well, we're way behind you on science."

"Yeah."

"We've barely invented anything. Apart from magic I think we correspond to like... Bronze Age."

"Huh. Well, glass shaped correctly bends light in ways that make it easier to see things."

"Cool."

"Lots of things do, actually, but glass is most convenient much of the time."

"I don't have to use physical glass to look around corners or at very small or distant things."

Nod. "Do you have mirrors?"

"Not glass ones."

"The seeing-around-corners thing is usually a mirror thing."

"Huh."