Not bad for a low-tech society.  He'd visualized non-Governance clothing as being much cruder, given the description of hand-powered spinning and weaving - wait is that actually incredibly expensive stuff that only third-circle wizards on important government projects can afford?  He'll quietly ask somebody who isn't Carissa, which he can totally do now, because maaaaaagic.

"I've been practicing economicmagic!" Keltham says.  "Observe what I can now do completely without a huge supply network manufacturing sound-transmission equipment."  He goes through the gestures to cast and catch Message, then mouths to Meritxell, "Do her new clothes look very expensive?"

Not bad for a low-tech society.  He'd visualized non-Governance clothing as being much cruder, given the description of hand-powered spinning and weaving - wait is that actually incredibly expensive stuff that only third-circle wizards on important government projects can afford?  He'll quietly ask somebody who isn't Carissa, which he can totally do now, because maaaaaagic.

"I've been practicing economicmagic!" Keltham says.  "Observe what I can now do completely without a huge supply network manufacturing sound-transmission equipment."  He goes through the gestures to cast and catch Message, then mouths to Meritxell, "Do her new clothes look very expensive?"

Not bad for a low-tech society.  He'd visualized non-Governance clothing as being much cruder, given the description of hand-powered spinning and weaving - wait is that actually incredibly expensive stuff that only third-circle wizards on important government projects can afford?  He'll quietly ask somebody who isn't Carissa, which he can totally do now, because maaaaaagic.

"I've been practicing economicmagic!" Keltham says.  "Observe what I now do completely without a huge supply network manufacturing sound-transmission equipment."  He goes through the gestures to cast and catch Message, then mouths to Meritxell, "Do her new clothes look very expensive?"

Not bad for a low-tech society.  He'd visualized non-Governance clothing as being much cruder, given the description of hand-powered spinning and weaving - wait is that actually incredibly expensive stuff that only third-circle wizards on important government projects can afford?  He'll quietly ask somebody who isn't Carissa, which he can totally do now, because maaaaaagic.

"I've been practicing economicmagic!" Keltham says.  "Observe what I now do completely without a huge supply network to manufacture sound-transmission equipment."  He goes through the gestures to cast and catch Message, then mouths to Meritxell, "Do her new clothes look very expensive?"