[her tone gentles. This...this isn't just a difference in times. It's the same kind of uncertainty and disbelief that she's fielded her whole life. It's what made Geordie sigh when she talked about the professor's housekeeper being a goblin. It's what made Sophie grimace whenever Jilly brought up her being part fae. They didn't want to believe.

Or, even if they did, they couldn't. It was very difficult to see the magic in something when you were busy hunting for the trap door or the trick mirror]

We're in a place where anything is possible. Anything. [another time, she'd argue that this was the world they knew back home, too. That most people just didn't take the time to open their eyes to it. But that's a thought for later.] There's science so different that it feels like a miracle. There's magic that brings worlds and people together without any boundary between race or time or even universe.

It's a double edged sword. Magic...or whatever you want to call it... it's not inherently good. It can help and it can hurt. But it's always...

[she falters, hunting for the word] ...wondrous.