"All of the natives I've met have been fairly open," Hermione replied. But then, she'd mostly met mages, who always seemed willing to open up to another mage, especially about the various injustices she'd been facing. Perhaps she should make an effort to branch out, even if she obviously couldn't tell someone was a mage just by looking at them.

"Perhaps, more than a leader, rifters could make do with a scribe. It would undoubtedly be helpful to have core information about this world and the people in it gathered in one central place in an unbiased manner, especially if more rifters keep coming in."