"She's learned as much from you as she can, she says. Blue or green next, Tse Witwex?"

"Blue, but not for an hour or two, the client isn't here yet."

    "Yes Ma'am. She'll spend the time meditating; where would you like her to be?"

Tse Witwex has her attendant show Deskyl to an out-of-the-way spot under a tree.

She meditates, and naps, and meditates some more.

Tse Witwex's attendant comes to get her before the bluemage's appointment.

She's ready to go when they get there.

The bluemage is being asked the location of a ship, and pans around for a couple of minutes before finding and reporting on it.

Deskyl leans against the wall scowling until they're done.

The bluemage's attendant finds the scowling pretty nervewracking.

"She's fighting with the part of his magic that dwindles him," DZ explains. "It's difficult, and her magic is stronger when she's upset."

"Stronger when she's upset?"

"Yes sir. She's a different sort of mage, her magic doesn't work like yours at all."

The bluemage, meanwhile, has no interest in Deskyl's facial expression and yawns and leans on his attendant.

    "She didn't get all of it, she says, but pretty close."

"That's good to hear," says the attendant.

    "She'll be able to change how blue and greenmages are dwindled, soon, she says. Though she'll need an example of someone with convenient dwindling to start with."

"Convenient dwindling?" asks Tse Witwex.

    "Mages don't dwindle identically, even if they're the same color, she says; she can change how one mage has dwindled to match a different one's dwindling. And once she's more familiar with the effects of the dwindling she'll be able to change it to something specific."

"Oh, maybe you'll want to meet some little children," says the bluemage's attendant.

    "She can't give a mage more than they already have, yet, she can only change which things they have. She's trying, though."

"I meant the children don't have any dwindling, so if you could make working mages match that..."

Deskyl shakes her head.

    "She says it's like making something out of cloth - if you have enough to make a shirt, you can use it to make pants instead, but if you only have enough for a shirt or pants, you aren't going to be able to make a robe, no matter what you do."

"I don't understand," the attendant says.

"There are other bluemages who have done as much magic as he has, sir?"