How do magic mirrors work?

You have a mirror, and you can tell it who or what mirror you want to call and you'll appear in their mirror and vice-versa and you can talk.

Little different than that, but basically yeah.

Well, it'd be weird if it were identical. What English phrases am I most likely to need in the next week?

"Hi, I don't speak English." "Can you direct me to Daphne or Idaia?" "Where's the bathroom?"

Bella hazards guesses on how to spell these things. She accepts corrections. She practices pronouncing them less haltingly.

Daphne will also teach her general learning-the-language words and phrases, if she wants.

Those are good too! Things she can mix and match to get used to the grammar. She can play with it while she lucid-dreams.

Lucid dreaming sounds really useful!

Bella can explain how to pick it up to Daphne too! It just won't be as useful for her as for Idaia.

Cool! Yeah, Idaia's magic's not transmissible, it's such a pity.

And neither's subtle artistry. Wizardry is, though, should work fine for anybody I teach here.

Good.

I cast a spell today and it went off fine. Tomorrow I'll paint up some basic scrolls.

Why tomorrow?

I'm working up to it. I don't want to make a stupid mistake because on some level I expect the universe to smite me.

Ah. I'm sorry that happened to you.

Didn't. I was very careful.

I meant getting sent back somewhere it could.

Ah. Thanks.

You three should form a "victims of the Valar" support group or something.

"The Valar ruined my life and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"!

I'll make the t-shirts.

I didn't have a way to teekay anything out of my dresser the way I could reach the books and my crystal ball, I don't have anything but what I'm wearing.

Wanna go shopping?