"All magical things humans can do are objects of one variety or another, yes. Enchantment refers to a particular subset of them, though."

"What subset?"

"Things that have a consistent effect forever and don't need recharging or get consumed, and aren't golems."

"Cool. Okay, carry on."

It only takes another five minutes, for about twenty minutes total. The last step is to 'seal' the magic by saying an equivalent of 'so mote it be' in a sufficiently serious tone, in any language.

"Here we are. Testing." He taps it and wants it to follow him, then steps away. It does. "You try. Tap and want it to follow you, or want it to turn off. No memory or user-recognizing features, very very simple implementation."

Sadde taps it and wants it to follow him.

It does follow him. His center of mass, specifically.

It has a pretty low max speed, and zero collision avoidance ability.

It's still really cute. "I'm going to learn everything."

"Best of luck. I'll be here for a couple of weeks, maybe months - though in one of the rental shipyards by tomorrow. Here's the money I promised for your street-stall fund."

It's a very regular, six-sided blue-tinted but otherwise clear crystal that says 2500 on it.

Sadde accepts it. "How does this work?"

"Same as the toy in concept, you touch two crystals together and want to transfer however much. It only works if there are people touching both crystals and they agree on the amount. Different crystals have different maximums - that's a 10000-max."

"Gotcha. This is really cool. Do you want me to make you anything else? I really don't mind making you whatever, we're not the two of us gonna crash any markets."

"You sure? In that case..."

Quite a few more things, with particular attention to samples of rare creatures or plants.

If they're creatures or plants Sadde knows of, Nils can have 'em.

That rather limits things, but plenty of profit can still be had. Nick will even toss Sadde another 7500 to max out that crystal. Fair's fair, and it's not like he's getting a bad deal.

Sadde doesn't have much of an idea how much everything he's making is worth, but eh, whatever.

Nick is honest that he isn't giving Sadde a terribly big fraction of what it's all worth, but this is most of his cash-on-hand. How about a set of magic tools to satisfy Nick's sense of fairness? Getting them here is faster than shopping elsewhere and also has the benefit of being selected by someone who tinkers with magic as a hobby - everything useful and none of the useless junk that'd be included in a kit designed for amateurs and people without eidetic memory.

He's honestly fine, he can generate endless matter, he used that to make himself rich long ago, he can do it again.

"Okay, I'll shut up and take your money then."

He laughs. "Please do. When I become a Fate I can even help you with some magic, too, if you like."

"They don't have an innate advantage in magic-craft, you know, just massive intuitive power in a fairly narrow domain. Various kinds of making things sort of like your biokinesis. Earth, plants, wind and a little bit of animals, water and a little bit of wind, fire and a little bit of stone."

"I was actually thinking of finding other Fates and seeing if I can learn more magic from them."

"I wouldn't know if that would get you anything or not, but I suspect not. I advise you not to ask Ragnarosa, her temperament is legendary non-academic."

"Duly noted. I will try to find more academically-minded Fates."

"And I do mean legendarily. There are legends about her."