That makes sense.

Don't think the climate and soil are too different, though, you could probably bring plants back and forth without problems.

Except for the whole invasive species thing.

Invasive species thing?

So it turns out introducing a species to an environment that didn't develop to keep it in check can have Consequences.

...like what?

Ecology isn't really my specialty but off the top of my head there's the fact that nothing recognizes it as prey so it can multiply way too much and overcompete for other food sources.

Oh. ...well we definitely have some of the same fruit?

That's promising! Which ones?

I think all the fruit I've seen here was recognisable? Apples and grapes and strawberries and whatnot.

Aha. Yeah, promising. Do you have...acorns?

- yeah, think so.

Pity you weren't more of a botanist. Ah well.

I was too busy nerding about magic. I'm not even sure what I'd be if I weren't a metamancer—well, a princess, I guess.

Yeah.

Sometimes I get scared that if I wasn't a metamancer I'd think they were all terrible just like everyone else.

Hug.

Hug!

I try to convince myself that I'm the sort of person who'd look at this mess and conclude it makes less than zero sense and secretly be okay with metamancers—those people do exist—but I might just be fooling myself.

Yeah. Well. You are a metamancer.

Mmhm. And then I wonder if there aren't any other horrible things I'm pretty much okay with that I should not be. I've tried to spot those but I haven't been able to but that's not very strong evidence...

Yeah that's a thing. I think I do okay at it, too--the best trick I've found is that if you find yourself having negative emotions towards some group examine your reasons why pretty damn carefully.

...I have negative emotions towards my world's royalty? she says, a hint of mirth in her mental voice.

I think that one's probably okay.

But Edie, what if I'm actually being terribly unfair to them? What if I'm horribly prejudiced and they've never done anything wrong after all?

Nope.