"Mm - yes. Definitely worth including some paramedics and nurses and doctors in on a first pass of disclosure if we possibly can. And maybe we can do healing items - not scrolls or wands, but proper healing items - eventually?"

"Yes. Scrolls and wands will do to start with, especially if projector-wands that can do a new inscription whenever you flick on the light turn out to work, but we'll definitely want to do something more--stable, eventually."

"Yeah. And we'll either need to charge for the things or subsidize ourselves with some other revenue stream."

"I don't mind volunteering some of my time to make scrolls and so on for emergency medical use, and of course there's all the other thing we're planning on selling...I think a permanent invisibility item might be lower on the priority list than things that are safer to mass produce and sell."

"I'm not averse to volunteering either, but we'll need materials and I don't want to live with my mom forever and, frankly, we deserve hazard pay. And there's a question as to whether our time is better spent on R&D versus copying things out - and if it's the former, we will probably need to pay people to copy things out."

"True enough. Well, I suppose it's relatively immaterial until we have working healing spells and medical contacts. Do you think we should work on repair or removal first? I suppose injury is more likely to harm us than serious disease in the near future."

"Yeah, and most disease doesn't work all that fast and empirically we can go from zero to spell in under twenty-four hours; if one of us gets sick the other working around the clock can maybe fix it before it gets too bad. So, repair first, removal second."

"I wouldn't want to bet our lives on being able to do any given spell as fast as we did invisibility, but. Yes, most disease doesn't work that quickly."

"And while we're working on it we can think of ways to convince medical professionals that we are not high or brain-damaged."

"Starting with a nurse or an intern--I have every respect for nurses, but the fact of the matter is that they aren't as highly paid or high-status--and having an actual demonstration that couldn't be easily faked would probably help."

"Or a paramedic. It might go more or less unnoticed if someone started getting called to a lot of things that 'turned out not to be serious'."

"Oh, that's true." He considers. "Maybe on that note we should try to make a spell that detects the early stages of diseases that kill you but take a long time to do it. Like cancer, but not just cancer. Then we could fix those without the medical profession ever coming into it in such a way that leaves a paper trail."

"It'd be nice, but we don't have a way to filter for at-risk populations and most people don't have cancer. We'd cast it hundreds of times before we found anyone to surreptitiously cure."

"True. Perhaps we can make a wandlight for it and find someone with nothing better to do than flick it on and incant for a while, but, yes, not a high priority."

"I'm wary of plans that involve somebody incanting over and over. If they get sloppy..."

"...Okay, true. Not the best idea, then. Although it might be useful to have a diagnostic spell in general."

"Yeah, then we'd know which diagram and incantation to use. If it weren't obvious what was wrong, as with most serious injuries."

"Yes. Diseases and concussions and internal bleeding and--" he cuts himself off. "It would be useful."

"X-ray magic. To reduce the risk of cancer. ...Which we will be able to cure anyway. But also birth defects which sounds harder."

"And can affect psychological development, I believe, which I am extremely leery of messing with even if the spell wasn't going to backfire on us."

"Oh yeah, definitely. Although magic works on a high enough meta level that I do wonder if we couldn't cure straightforward cases of depression and so on..."

"I suspect patching the symptoms would be easier than curing the problem itself. Perhaps our first students should be people who know things about medicine and psychology and so on rather than middle schoolers."

"Yeah, they'll be able to fill in our knowledge gaps. I agree."

"...I may have some leads on that. There are a handful of nurses who would remember me from when I was eleven, I think."

"Sounds promising. I don't think I'm likely to stand out in the minds of any doctors... maybe the neurologist, but I haven't seen her in years."