Patchouli turned around from whatever it was she was probably hitting with a rain of death beams. Good thing whatever these training facilities had things that repaired themselves or something. Her movements were a bit too quick and smooth for her to just be turning around on her feet -- but at this point, her using magic was perhaps not unusual.

"It's magic.

"...you don't seem like the sort who's used to that kind of thing, are you," she continued. "It seems like magic and harder science aren't given room to coexist in most worlds, from what I've picked up." And, you know, all the other stigmas associated with magic long before high technology levels were achieved which meant that actual magicians were rare on Earth, for example. But hey, that's a very long story.