"See, Magister Sting would have talked to a High Elf who's seen a zipper before three thousand years ago, and Professor Nightstar would look at a zipper and deduce that it implied a manufacturing process that worked well for making hundreds of precisely identical tiny things, someplace that found that cheaper to do than applying a corresponding enchantment."

"See, Magister Sting would have talked to a High Elf who'd seen a zipper three thousand years ago, and Professor Nightstar would look at a zipper and deduce that it implied a manufacturing process that worked well for making hundreds of precisely identical tiny things, someplace that found that cheaper to do than applying a corresponding enchantment."