It just kind of does, there isn't an obvious reason. It isn't even obvious that it would, from what I know from my Gift; I know it because I've watched new mages being taught and seen it happen a couple times.

That's scary. We'll be careful.

Yup. If you want to just break whatever you've cast on as soon as you cast the spell, that works fine for practicing, you just need to wait and see once you think you might be getting stable spells. It usually takes about three or four months, sometimes as many as six, to stop getting miscasts altogether.

How much practice does that assume?

Like four or six hours a day, most days, probably? I never paid that much attention to it.

Do you know if more practice speeds it?

I think so.

The mage finishes their spell and starts on another one. This one incorporates both light and magic detection, and the magic detection form is indeed noticeably more intricate.

Oh, I see what you mean.

Hmm? Oh, another spell form?

Yep. He sends it.

Oh, huh. That doesn't work how I was expecting it to, and... I think it's possible for a magic-detection form to let me target magic in other worlds, but this one is worn down the wrong way.

Worn down?

Yeah - the usual way of sharing them isn't very good, I think it's impossible to properly share an artifact form and really hard to share anything close to that detailed, but the sharing mage can pick and choose which details are important to give to the person they're sharing with. This form is actually closer to the light form than to my artifact one, in how detailed it is, but I can see where the details I'd use to use it as a way of targeting a teleportation spell would go, I think.

So the teleport I get will be less detailed than yours?

If we have to do it the usual way, yeah. I suspect osanwë doesn't have that problem, especially if you got this whole form all at once.

I did. It'd be cool if osanwe could save us some time.

Mmhmm.

Anything else here?

The Speaker might be able to get them to use the spell form that lets us be invisible to magic next. There aren't any specific plans for that but we probably won't be able to get it until spring otherwise.

Okay.

He patiently waits, singing softly to himself.

And she snuggles up next to him and finishes off the oatmeal.

The light-and-magic-detection spell takes most of an hour to complete.

And then?

And then there's an invisibility-to-magic spell, how convenient.

He bounces this to her too, once he can read it.

Excellent. Tell the Speaker we appreciate their help?