- [Riana comes to wake up Paul, who has been sleeping in the barn]
- Riana: Paul.
- Paul: I'm tired, dad, let me go back to sleep.
- Riana: Paul, it's Riana. It's time for work.
- Paul: I'm not old enough to go to work.
- Riana: Everyone who eats must work. It's the law.
- Paul: Riana, it's still dark.
- Riana: By the time you dress and have breakfast, it won't be.
- Paul: Why don't these Spellbinders let you have anything new? In my world, nearly all farming is done with machines.
- Riana: What is "machines"?
- Paul: You're complicated tools that make life easier. Like in my world, we don't have to walk everywhere. We have cars. They're like a chair with wheels and you sit in the chair and it takes you where you want to go.
- Riana: Could this chair take me to Rivertown?
- Paul: No, because you don't have any roads.
- Riana: Could it take me up the river?
- Paul: No.
- Riana: Could it take me across the fields?
- Paul: Not without destroying your crops, but...
- Riana: These chairs would be of no use in our world.