Emilia was also not used to being asked about the purpose for her experiments; she submitted reports on time, was reliably on call when the department broke something, and had never, actually, broken something herself. So this interaction was already out of the realm of the normal

"Routine experiment," EJ explained in her most neutral tone,"I'm testing the impacts of gravity on various magical objects - an invisibility cloak, remembrall, and a foeglass, for today."

Space was one of few dimensions that magic could not influence, no matter how much Emilia studied it - but gravity, gravity she could play with. And if she could understand some more about gravity and atmospheric pressure and other things that depended on the planet, then she could learn more about how much bearing Earth itself had on their ability to conduct magic.

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