"Huh."
"Very fun, or so I'm told. I can't use it myself because the internet access box would explode. Downsides of wizardry."
"Guess you could call it that. Though if you've got magic in the first place, you're going to get some hexing whether you learn proper wizardry or not."
"Hexing is - the thing where phones and internets don't like you?"
"Yep. Wizards release little bits of uncontrolled magic into the air, and they futz with whatever high-tech junk happens to be around."
"That sounds inconvenient. Probably not as bad as being an oneiromancer or a pyromancer."
"What happens to them? I really hope pyromancers don't randomly catch fire, that would just be awful for everyone."
"Oh, no, pyromancers just lose emotional regulation. They're like toddlers, which doesn't really work well with the pyromancy. Oneiromancers lose receptive language."
"Gah. That... might be worse, really. Today I have learned to be thankful for my wizardry, and the fact that I can set things on fire without turning into a small child."
"Lots of vices are okay. At least in smallish doses. Almost everyone has at least a little antheomancy. I'm working on automancy."
The dog lets out a suspiciously laugh-like bark.
"I try not to set houses on fire. That counts for something, Mouse."
Harry peers at her. "Was that sass? That sounded suspiciously like sass."
"So, what other mancies are there? You're doing automancy and antheomancy, the first of which seems pretty self-explanatory... I'm intrigued."
"There's a bunch. Automancy will let me shapeshift and stuff. I can do color changes now -" She turns her hair white and then back. "The vice is self-centeredness but I think I'll cope. I'd better, because antheomancy is finesse with networked flowers, and the vice is extroversion."
"Yeah, I can imagine better combinations. There's worse, too, though. And it sounds like you know what you're doing."
"I really, really want automancy, but the vice freaks me out, to be honest. I wound up with more antheomancy than I meant to because without flowers I'd be bored out of my skull. Before even touching automancy I solicited lots of advice on how to manage vices."
"Yyyyeah. I mean, really, a little bit of automancy might help me out some, I've been told I have a martyr complex. But I sure as hell wouldn't want more than a little bit. And really, I'd rather go for something like... I don't know, boredom. Keep me from getting so angry. Something like that, where it's just good for everyone involved."
"Lithomancers get calm. It's not as unambiguously good as it sounds."
"It's not awful, as vices go. And they get protective magic."