Ho bowed, razor-sharp, with a smile. "Thank you for the compliment. But I'd be very surprised if you couldn't do things completely outside of my ability in turn. That seems to be the way of things on this ship. Perhaps later we could compare notes on our worlds' respective magics?"

He examined the statues quickly with his own magical senses, intrigued. Already an example. "Well then, let me see..."

He spoke a few words and made a series of complicated gestures as he reached out to touch one of the statues. The moment he made contact with a fingertip, the statue abruptly shrunk to a sixteenth of its previous size, falling like a limp cloth to the table's surface.

"That didn't seem to affect the enchantments placed upon it," he said after a moment of scrutiny.