"Pretty simple!" He flips to the recipe.

Then she will learn to make glowing rocks and then try to figure out how to grind them into a powder to make dye.

They're pretty tough. Tiro knows how to break one; it takes a fair amount of force. He doesn't know how to grind one up.

Hmm. Hmmmm.

"I don't suppose you can make diamonds with this magic?"

"I'm sure it's possible. I don't know how yet."

"I can wait until then, I guess. I wonder if Leuska and Delsmiar are done yet, I wouldn't be surprised."

"There was kind of a lot of furniture to move, but we could go check!"

"Sure."

So they go check. What's the status of the broken furniture?

Mostly but not completely cleared out!

Cool. Tiro can help with the rest.

Excellent. Delsmiar: Has a couple more words.

Ooh! Words!

This one is 'the', which is, uh, not all that useful. And that one is 'Void', one of the five most basic elements. Awesome.

At least "the" comes up a lot.

Yes it does.

"It'll be interesting to see what the grammar's like, once we've translated enough vocabulary," Leuska muses.

"As ways to learn a language go, I definitely prefer the kind where I get to cheat outrageously with magic to the kind where I only get to cheat with magic very slowly a little at a time."

"Granted. At least it's better than not getting to cheat with magic at all."

"Very true!"

"Huh, I wonder if anyone else's magic could be useful in ways we don't know how to guess yet..."

"What is everyone's magic?"

"Uhh, elf magic isn't really relevant, frost giants freeze stuff, halflings are really hard to kill, you know Delsmiar's thing, orcs do food, and I sing."

"...Yeah, I can't think of anything immediately, besides what Delsmiar's already doing with the books and what Yttren's already doing with the plants. And Amalta suggested Luvei could make tools for trying to work wood with but I'm not sure that actually, uh, works."

"He can probably keep them frozen, if he's handling them, and I wouldn't be surprised if he could do 'em really sharp--maybe it wouldn't work so well for like, axes, although even then I think it's worth a shot, but for carving tools..."

"Well, we can try it!"