"We could do a study group."

"We have like a week. But that might be a good idea, yes."

"And I'm not actually doing the exams."

"You're not?"

"Money makes problems go away and in this case it's the problem of 'you need GCSEs to get into a sixth form or college'. I'm taking them in January instead with Maya and Juniper."

"Oh, cool. I hate exams, they're boring."

"Last year wasn't great but I – Theo – only had two, so." Shrug.

"Yeah I should, like, actually study and not just pretend I care."

"Might be a good idea."

"Study group yep though that sounds good."

He shakes his head and sighs. "Experimenting with—" Pause. "Something's just occurred to me."

"Hm?"

"That thing you said, about putting magic on people. I wonder if we can put magic on stuff. Like, objects. Clow made the cards and the staff and the book and Kero, but... We can enchant pieces of paper, right?"

"Right, and apparently when Theo gets better at magic he can make another staff…"

"Right. So maybe we could enchant other objects. Like, instead of making them from scratch."

".… Yeah," he responds. "Hey, Cerberus, there aren't any cards active, are there?"

"I don't think so."

Back to Sadde: "Got any ideas for things we could try?"

"Not with the cards we currently have. Played with Sword enough to know it's just that, Twin looks interesting to play with but doesn't seem to have a lot of variation, Windy is powerful but none of us have enough magic to have a lot of finesse with it, I cannot for the life of me come up with good ways to apply Jump in anything nonobvious, and we've covered the rest."

"How about objects we could enchant, ways we could do that? I don't have the list of cards memorized, I forget if there are any concepts that are obvious to call upon for enchantment."

"Oh, right, yeah, that. And maybe, hmm... I wonder if we can make the scrolls better somehow. Like. Dump more magic into them or something."

"I think we tried that. I don't remember what happened, though."

"Really? When?"

"I think one of us tried overcharging one and got flames? But that was due to an overexpenditure of mana?" He shrugs. "I honestly do not recall, I just had the feeling we did it yesterday."

"The only time we got flames was when we tried just doing one without mana."