"...maybe it would make more sense to have a look at the half hour ritual first but I'm just not getting a good mental model at all."

"It would probably help to look at the ritual first," he agrees.

"Cool. Is now good?"

"Certainly."

"Awesome." She finishes her grapes and looks for somewhere to put stem and core.

Kanimir points to the composting bucket.

Compost!

And then they can go back to the library to locate the ritual.

"So what does it do?"

"Creates a small floating light."

"Like this?" She creates a small floating light.

"Roughly."

"All right, where do I start."

They can go back to the library, then, and Kanimir shows her the book with the light ritual in it, and walks her through the notation and so on.

Which she will take notes on and perform!

It takes about half an hour, as advertised, and at the end she has a little bobbing light.

She cackles.

"Oh, excellent."

"Iiiiii can do unlimited otherworldly maaaaagic!"

"You can!"

"Eeeeee! - okay what is the best way to learn it from here -"

Kanimir explains what parts of the spell count as discrete parts and how to choose sequences to compress--"It helps to know what shows up elsewhere, see--these parts together are used in many spells involving light, so if you have a shortcut for that, you can reuse it there--"

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

He is delighted to explain magic almost indefinitely.

How excellent!