"I won't feel so bad about cheating, then."

"Silly Milan. It's a game played by college students. Sometimes while drunk. As long as you're not a dick about it cheating is completely within the spirit."

"You say that now," he laughs.

"If you get too bad, by which I mean good, people are just going to point at me and go, 'oh no there's two of them' so I certainly can't complain."

"Noted."

"And nobody says I'm not in the spirit of things. I mean, sometimes they try to get me intoxicated so's they'll have a chance, but that's also the fun kind of cheating."

Snort.

"Because they do it openly and I can say no. Don't try to intoxicate someone without their consent, that would not be the fun kind of cheating."

"I could've guessed as much."

"Probably because you're not a dick."

"Yes."

"Dicks don't last very long around Odette, which is sort of ironic since she's perfectly straight."

"Illia!"

...

"I apologize for my sister's innuendo."

"Apology accepted. So when do I learn how enchanting works and what it's useful for? Am I going to have to wait until I encounter this information in an actual class?"

"I can absolutely explain enchanting. I can't do it yet, but I know how to keep checking that I still can't. Enchanting basically works by putting so much magic in a thing that it sort of wears a groove in it that more magic can go through. But not all expressed--you could make a rock jump out of your hand as fast and eagerly as you want and not enchant it. You have to sort of shove the magic in while not letting it all do what it's trying to do."

"Interesting. What governs whether you can do it or not? And does enchanting a thing make it easier to do all magic to that thing, or only the specific kind you were doing, or what?"

"It's...sort of a power level thing, mostly, but also sort of a focus thing...only the specific thing you're enchanting it for."

"Hmm. All right."

"Maybe we can get you auditing some theory classes."

"Sounds like fun."

"People with experience teaching the subject are more likely to be able to explain it well than random students, who'd'a thunk."

"You answered my question perfectly well on the level I was asking."

"Oh, good."