Thank you so much. We appreciate it tremendously.

You're welcome. Use it well.

Oh, we will.

Ready to go back?

Yeah.

And back they go.

Should I start practicing right away?

Sure, there's no reason not to. Just make sure you won't be touched while you're doing it. Do you have any questions?

I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing.

...oh, sorry. It should actually be pretty obvious once you've looked at the sense and the forms for a while, but - she walks him through casting a basic spell.

Thank you. And breaking it?

Physically break whatever you cast the spell on - make sure you break through the part the spell is on if you don't cast on the whole thing. Or you can set it up to be cast on two things at once during the object definition step and just move them apart, but that's a little trickier.

Okay.

Thank you.

Hug.

I'll be back later if you think of anything else.

Thank you. I will certainly let you know.

And she heads back to the cave.

How'd it go?

Got all three, but this version of the magic detection won't do what I want it to, we'll need to try again on that. You?

They'll take it seriously.

Good.

If it looks like we might go with the pinning paths, I should start working on that soon - I can always deactivate it if we come up with something better, but the sooner I start the more places you'll be able to go when you first get there, and that seems important.

That seems like the way to start, yes.

Nod. Are there any places you especially want?

Might be best if it's a place I haven't seen before, in case the Enemy can learn something about the camp from my reactions to it...

Well, the idea is I'm going to let you go as many places as I can, and I'm just asking about what I should do first besides the obvious. But I can do that, at least if your siblings will be able to tell me what places you haven't seen.

Thank you. I don't know that I want to be able to go everywhere, just enough places the imprisonment thing doesn't affect me too much...