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For Teige: Have you been able to talk to your family since that one phone call? Did you ever get your glasses?

Teige: The glasses, I haven't bothered to replace. I really only need 'em for reading at a distance, and I can't even read Aetherian yet anyway. [He points at his goat-like head.] (Also, they ent made for this face.) But Vlad lets me use his mobile to call Ma and my sisters every week or so! He even let me keep it on hand for a weekend while Ma and I worked out how to recreate our family's clothing spell tags with Aetherian ingredients. In fact...

[Inset: Teige in human form is standing at a stall full of mushrooms and other materials, holding the cell phone on speaker and conversing with the shopkeeper.]

Shopkeeper: If it is not a specific type of mushroom, perhaps it does not need to be a mushroom. The significance is what matters in a spell.

Teige's mother, on the phone: That's right! Come to think, your Great-Aunt Suzanna used to chip paint from her door as a substitute.

Teige: That's why her door was like that?