"Yeah, not healing. I could... mm, maybe not boil things, I have practice boiling things, but I could melt some ice?"

"That's pretty similar to boiling water. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"

"I'm sort of wondering if there might be an effect where casting the same spell a lot makes it easier in some way - there's no really safe way to experiment without my power confounding it, but neither we nor the textbook would necessarily know if a well-used spell is, say, still safe to use if you wobble a line a bit or trip over a consonant. With my power confounding it, aiming at a result I've ever cast for before would be suspect. So I want to test both 'incanting in English' and 'hackjob runes' with new effects. I'll try freezing some water and then melting it but not to a boil."

"Okay. Want me to help look up runes with suitable meanings?"

"Of course."

Runes runes runes. "I think the unabridged dictionaries should come in soon, which will be convenient."

"So much data entry! I'll basically be starting from scratch because the page numbering system won't work! Maybe I should write a spell to do data entry for me!"

"I don't know about that, but I'll help, and I suspect Daphne and Jaromira could be wrangled into helping too."

"We could all sit around here taking turns on the data entry and other spell development tasks."

"Most fun assembly line ever."

"I dunno, when I learned about the assembly line in school the exercise involved having teams of kids all making fortune tellers..."

"Unless they actually told fortunes I doubt they quite hold up against magic."

"I was teasing, obviously magic is better. I... tentatively think it is okay for you to tell Jaromira and for her to tell Daphne provided it goes no farther than that. That I am a dragon. It'll make dividing tasks a lot easier and I'm safer than I thought I was from random aggression."

"Okay. Would you rather be there when they find out?"

"...Yeah, I think so. And I would rather that this occur neither in my house nor the Avalon."

"My house would work fine for that purpose."

"Yeah. We could go there tomorrow, I guess?"

"Yes. Do you just want directions, or should we meet at the Avalon to start with as usual?"

"I guess there's no reason to stop at the Avalon first."

He gives her the address and the route.

Which she tucks into a notebook for future reference.

"Maybe the wands should play a recording of the incantation, to make it easier not to mess up."

"Sounds more technically challenging than just attaching things to flashlights. And I worry it might make the product seem more accessible to people who cannot in fact incant fluidly."

"Yeah, that's a fair point. Although recordings can't be too tricky, they have little ones in birthday cards sometimes."

"They do, but rigging them up is still done by machines made by people who know engineering and stuff."