"Do you have versions which are unidirectional or not ranged or focused on other people or not based in real time?"

"Yes, this one I could cast on anyone. Ones which aren't based in realtime need a corpus of the languages translated between to refer to. Not ranged as in point-blank or as in unlimited range?"

"You mentioned 'ranged' in its characteristics so I assumed it could have been otherwise."

"Yes, there are ones which are not ranged."

"Point blank would've required you to touch us? When you cast it or while we talked?"

"Depends on the spell. There are also spells that don't specifically require touch that have two or more focuses and apply only to them."

"Focuses?"

"People the spell is attached to."

"How'd you pick this version?"

(She has fixed his skylight in his absence.)

"If you turned out to be hostile, it didn't give you as much of an advantage."

"Yeah, I guess you wouldn't want somebody stabbing you and then running off fully fluent."

"Stabbing qua stabbing does not overly concern me but you did show up with magic I didn't recognize."

"Vampires are immune to stabbing?"

"Vampires are more resistant than a human to most forms of stabbing; more saliently I have extensive personal wards."

"Is it gonna seen threatening if I wanna know how yours work?"

"If you want to know how to construct a ward using my magic system I will not construe that as threatening at all. If you want to know how my personal wards work, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt given that I brought them up first, but I still won't tell you."

"First thing'll do, I mostly want to compare it to how ours work."

"That I will not begrudge you, although wards are somewhat advanced and it would probably make sense to learn more about the basics beforehand."

"Sure."

"I've been told I'm not a very good teacher, but I have very comprehensive books and am available to answer questions."

"I can't read your books."

"I would have to switch translation spells first," he acknowledges. "Or teach you the language, I suppose, but that sounds tedious."

"And time-consuming!"

"Quite. Excuse me a moment," he says, and disappears around a bookshelf, then comes back and says a nonsense word. "Alright, that should be fixed."

"Thanks. What's the word for?" She looks at the nearest book spines.