"Ohhhh," she says, sounding impressed. Her eyes widen behind the frames of her glasses and she clasps her hands together in excitement.

"That's such a fancy title! And it must be a very important job. But why has it been a year since you were there? Shouldn't you be there to do, um, magic things?" Look, she's just going to roll with this magic talk. In her mind, it's more likely advanced science making the seemingly impossible possible, but she's not going to argue about it. That would just be rude.