"If that is the case, I will give it due thought." It's clear Elidibus is being polite but is well aware policies may change, particularly when it comes to red tape, if you will. He'll find out when he gets there.

"Ah. I suppose it is possible that it is a matter of the laws which govern this star then. What alchemy or technology may manipulate in one is not sustainable in another."

Did we mention Elidibus practically bleeds a sense of Academic? He seems to have no problems with the idea that both science and magic can coexist and even intertwine.

"Yet there is clearly magic which operates within its laws." He pauses and seems to reconsider this statement. "Or is it something which slips through the rift as we did." Indeed it could be a measure of both. This seems more interesting to him than his current predicament.

It isn't, exactly. But it is part of the whole matter of interest and it is better his person be seen as a sometimes absentminded intellect than... well, something worse.

"I know not the courtesies needed for your circumstances," he looks to Winter again. "But if you are willing, would you tell me how you came to discover you were bound?" A first-hand account is far better than a third party presentation. But he also recognizes it may not be something man wishes to talk about with a stranger.