The Shadow responded first. "What else is there to do here? We are a Hero; if we fight, we go home where things are a proper size, and we are not surrounded by tiny foreign children."

Tazendra replied, "Now, you know that is incorrect. Most of them are not children."

"They may as well be. If they were properly human, they would be."

"You are all very young," Tazendra conceded, addressing Duster. "And... this is the longest I have been away from home. I am not a baroness here, or a Lavode, and the rules of magic here are... frustrating." More that involved a level of technology that Tazendra considered herself a novice at. "Swordplay is something that is the same as it is at home, if one does not consider what I am fighting."