She pulled out two large glasses from behind the bar, considered, then knelt down like she was looking for something, she came back up with a bottle of wine, and A large bag of supermarket popcorn. She brought over the wine and the glasses, then doubled back for a large bowl, filled it with popcorn, and brought it over. She suspected she was going to want some for the reactions that were to come.

"Oh, there is a lot to tell. There are some guides, but they're impersonal, dry, and hard to believe. I'm much more into showing, the telling. So tell me, River. All you've seen, do you believe in magic?" A grin.

"The real stuff, not light of hand hocus pocus, that is," she clarified as she poured the wine for each of them.