"...Yeah that sounds like it could get messy."

"Yeah."

"It's a very pretty house, let's not wreck it."

"I mean, we can also do stuff outdoors, but yeah."

"Depending how messy it got..."

"I mean, it's not like I'm talking about playing with antimatter."

"Well, yeah, but I sure don't know what would happen if you liquefied the air. So I don't know how far away from the house we'd have to go if we wanted to be safe. So we might guess wrong."

"Well, we could do research beforehand."

"If you want, sure!"

"Well, I think cooling the air that much is a little beyond what I'm currently capable of, but eventually."

"When Anna gets the ice flower to bud and we have enough of it to go around."

"Yeah."

Cass conjures herself a handful of popcorn. Nom.

"Hmm, so what else can we nerd about magic...?"

"You done any cool stuff with conjuring? Like..." She frowns slightly in concentration, and then a glass ball appears in her hands. Inside the thick outer shell are several more shells in successive concentric layers, all made of perfectly clear glass with traces of dark red pigment forming faint swirling patterns; between each pair of shells is a thin layer of water. "I have no idea how you could possibly make something like this without magic, but isn't it pretty?"

"Ooh. I've done plenty of things with conjuring I think are cool, but nothing impossible like that."

"Well, what cool stuff have you done, then?"

"Well, food. A set of bracelets that cover the roses on my wrists with opaque glass ones. Pens in increasing levels of absurd elaboracy. Sheets with a truly decadent thread count..."

Cass giggles. "Isn't magic great? I totally want to see your weirdest pen."

She conjures a pen with swooping rainbow designs traced with gemstones wrapping around the barrel, swirling gold loops attached to the side for where one's fingers go, and Hebrew lettering in each rainbow stripe in its chromatic opposite.

"That's awesome."

"The writing's from the Song of Solomon."

"I have no idea what that means."

"It's a racy love poem in the--Old Testament."

"Oh, nice!"