"...Hm."

"Redacted???" 

Shrug. "I had another name when I was little, but I don't remember it." 

WOW THERE'S A LOT TO UNPACK THERE. 

"Anyway, um, you can buy a level by poking the little plus sign next to 'level seven.'"

She pokes the button. 

"Hmm. I already have spells, and I can't use weapons very well..."

"You can't?"

She holds up one of her hands. The burn scars are thick, there, and there are two fingers missing. 

"Ah." 

"What do the three categories they all have mean?"

"Well, HP stands for hit points, which is theoretically how many times you can take a hit but actually most hits do more than one hit point of damage..." 

Lucy is very careful to constrain her explanation of earthly RPG mechanics to the immediate things Ember is going to be liable to find useful, and not digress into explaining what a speedrunner or a gaming console is. 

"I think I mostly prefer games that aren't about fighting," Ember concludes. 

"Man, that is so fair? Although, like, games that happen to have fighting in them, are less...troubling...when you've never had to deal with non-consensual combat situations in real life." 

"I bet they would be. And all games are good, as long as everyone's having fun."