"Sounds like Earth, really. And most of the humans from there," Isabel admitted. Which might have been the point, really.

"Then again, I try to be the type to see farther than the end of my nose--even before I Awakened as a mage. Back there. Here, well. Kind of no choice, you know? This place is steeped in it!" She laughed at that. "Have you found that to be so?"

Isabel sort of hoped so.