"Once one impossible thing has happened, I think people are a lot more willing to accept more of them. And eventually they get to understand the idea that things work differently on other worlds, and open-mindedness is just inevitable after that."

Now, that might be a slight bit overoptimistic, given how difficult some people could find it to widen their views of what was possible, but really, in a place like this, you more or less ended up having to adapt or die.

"Personally, though, I'm most interested in learning about all these new magical paradigms. I wonder how many we'll be able to find."