Ah-hah! Success of a sort is revealed as the boot screen shows up on his journal. Hopefully it had just locked up and not gotten corrupted in some fashion.

"I wouldn't really know. Most people who claim to do magic where I'm from are merely specialists in slight-pf-hand and the suspension of belief rather than actually manipulating the fabric of reality," Claudia says, off-handedly. It wasn't hard to believe in magic, but she had a hunch that the lack of belief made it less powerful.

"Are you a sorcerer, then?"