"This is an odd place," he continued, "and an odd time. So much going on everywhere you look. Yet, the catch phrase for this decade will be, 'Turn on, tune in, drop out, get well.' So much technology, practicality, so little magic."
"Working a little magic, bringing a little magic to this busy, practical world, appealed to my sense of whimsey. And you, Mr. Scoresby, struck me as the sort of gentleman who could use a favor today. Repairing your burner there, and your balloon," Galen nodded to the fabric on the floor of the hanger where a small patch of 'newness' was slowly spreading as the nanomachines did their work, "seemed like the right thing to do. It was no trouble at all."