"...have you ever done any?"

"No? I don't know how long it takes to do– anything, I was just saying."

"We could get you a book and teach you," he says dubiously.

"… Is there any particular reason you say it like that?"

"Magic is evil?"

"I mean, yes, but– yeah, okay, nevermind." Shrug. "I think it's basically now testing magic on me and seeing what I can get rid of more easily then."

"Like what?"

"I dunno? See if changing my skin color gets reversed more quickly than the hair dye and if the hair dye is consistent reversal across colors and if it's at all linked to the memory thing in how long it takes and if it varies with the weather?"

"I'm pretty sure it won't vary with the weather."

"Might vary with my mood or who does the magic or how much I like them or something, though, since it seems to have selectively removed and altered the dye to do this," he says, indicating his hair.

"Mmm, I could try to do the same spells Willow did and see if anything changes?"

"Yeah? There was – the two memory things, the hair dye, and then just this burn and physical attack? I think?"

"Okay, then, memory things first?"

"Yeah," says Theo. "Two second thing first or the whole thirty seconds?"

"Let's do two second, her first then me, keeping track of how long it takes to return this time."

He nods. "Gonna say anything for me to remember or just see how long it takes for me to report that I do?"

"I'm gonna say a thing," she says, and finds the appropriate herbs inside her bag.

Nod.

She gets a match, lights it, gets her phone, and then two seconds have passed.

"It worked," he says. "Timeskip."

"Now we wait to see how long 'til it gets back."

"How long was it last time? Like a couple of minutes?"

"I don't really remember, but that's part of why we're testing again with both of us."

Nod. "Anything to do in the meantime or just wait? – Oh." He looks down at his 'injuries' again and notes the progress of the burn (slightly red, not really painful anymore) and the two bruises (the one Sadde inflicted slightly yellower than the other, neither really that bad).

"… None of them really seem that bad."

"That's useful information."