The Rooms of Antiquities, the pleasant female voice can be heard from the earbuds of the electronic tour guide, contain a number of peculiar objects, many of which are not, in fact, ancient. Several of them were in fact thought to be ancient until they were discovered to be forgeries, or merely more modern pieces confused for older ones.
"Oh, right."
He walks further away from the staff and tries again, to see if he can get it to work after one final try. He'd rather it be sooner than 'eventually'.
Ugh.
"Oh well," he says, giving up. He fetches his staff again, then goes back over to Sadde and Kero, leaving Windy out for now.
"So you have a magical artefact that allows you to fly better and faster but you won't, and I'm okay with using the artefact but can't and am stuck with a less powerful version of Fly. Is that right?"
"Yes, you did. So, tell me more about yourself, since we're apparently going to become magic buddies."
"There are usually more things to know about a person than their names! Like what they do on their free time, their favourite subjects at school, who they live with, what their plans are after they obtain enough magic to take over the world..."
"Really. The biography of Theo would be limited to listening to music and maths being okay."