"Sure." Port! Port!

She tries again.

This time it works. Hooray!

"Can you copy magical features onto anyone other than yourself?"

"I don't think so. I wouldn't know how to try," she says. "When I change a reflection it doesn't change the reflected thing."

"But it's different if you change your reflection?"

"Yes..."

"Hm. I wouldn't know where to go from there either."

"It would be strange if I was a shifter and a shaper... but..." She trails off contemplatively. "I guess I am probably a Legendary Talent. This is the sort of thing Legendary Talents do. But I am only a shifter one so far."

"Ah. That hadn't been clear."

"I wasn't really thinking about it. I don't feel very legendary."

"I suppose that makes sense."

Nod.

"Although becoming immortal might tend to remind you of it."

"Hm?"

"You said you copied a fairy's lifespan."

"Yes..."

"Fairies can still be killed by malice or accident, but are often referred to as immortal because of their indefinite lifespans."

"I have the phoenix thing too now," she says. "If I had a lot of phoenixes and a lot of fairies and a lot of unicorns in front of me... and maybe some of those moths or those snakes... then I could put together a way to make lots of people really immortal just by touching them."

"Hmm. For what particular reasons would it have to be a large number of each?"

"Sometimes if I mess up the reflection I can use a bit of another reflection of the same kind of thing and not have to go away and start over. If I only had one of each I would have to go away and start over a lot."

"Ah. This sounds potentially doable, but also like a significant project."

"Maybe yes."

"...Can you do anything with magic recorded inside quartz crystals?"

"I don't think so... the quartz crystals have the magic of remembering what some other magic looked like. It's not the same as having the magic itself."

"Oh, well. It was an idea."