No maybe (flip) G U E S   W O R  K S  IF  Y OU  CA L   I T    H A T   F OR   A  W HI L E   FI RST       P L ACE S  HA V E  N A M E S  I N   O T HE R  L A N G S   S O  CA N T   BE  U N A N I MO US

"Yeah, like, presumably the Quileutes have not always and forever called this place Forks, Washington, I just don't know at what point in the process Forks became a real enough name. What happens if you mess up a spell, did you ever?"

STU M B L ED  ON  I N CA N T A T I ON   DE L I V E R Y     S A I D  P F EH   W A S   FI N E

"Right, but - the kind of thing you wouldn't know is a mistake at the time such that you could pfeh about it. Like naming a location."

(Flip) no.

.....I don't know (flip)  O F   ON E

"I wonder if it's literally just safer to invent an entire new spell which is better-specified."

(Flip) I don't know.

Well, this sort of thing is why he is reading the Entire Book before he casts Any Spell. Onward.

Chapter 14, Communing, is mostly full of spells for interacting with or observing ghosts, but it also has a scattering of magic equivalents of telecommunication between living parties.  Magic phone, magic video call, magic text message.  Those are structurally very similar to the Scrying ones, and generally involve both parties performing the spell at, if not exactly the same time, then within a fairly narrow window of each other.

But much more numerous than these are the ones to do with ghosts.  The ingredients used tend gothicish, as with the Grave Flower.  Things generally related to death, as opposed to the manmade/natural contrast with the previous two chapters.  There's the spell Jeremy recommended him before, one for seeing the locations of ghosts as represented by cool-toned flames centered in their chests for a day (with a Burial Shroud as a component), one for hearing them that only works for an hour on the new moon and wants a Church Bell.  Lots that work for longer but that work only in the range of a specific tether.  One that works everywhere, indefinitely, but has as a prerequisite the Transforming spell on this page.

Transforming?

Are any of the comm spells for the living convenient enough that learning them and carrying the materials could ever be worth it without anyone planning to spend six months in Antarctica.

The bit where they require simultaneous action is the most inconvenient part.  The audio-only ones seem strictly worse than phone calls, but hey, if he wants to talk to someone and see their face and have them see his face in real time, he could do that!

Transforming is the last chapter.  The referenced spell is very simple.

To Amass Power

Cast at any time.

Kill by any method of your own direct Action at least one Human.  Between the time of their Death and when 1,000 of your own Heartbeats have since passed, stand near to the body or bodies and Incant:

By this act, I claim as mine
The product of this vital essence
By this death, I frame as just
Our misapportionèd concresence
With my will, I life-force twine
And relegate the rest to dust

Additional Sacrifices, at once or with repeated castings, will yield additional results.

He lingers on that page for a bit before forming a question.

Taptap.

A   L O T   O F  SP E L  S  H A V E  I T   A S  PR E R E Q

"I was probably eventually going to ask 'what does it mean to amass power exactly', I guess 'the power to do those spells' is something."

D O E S N T   E X PL A I N   AD   I T I ON A L

E N T I R E L Y

"Do you have an explanation for 'additional'?"

NO T  V E R Y  F OR  NON GH O STS     I T  FE L T  LIK E  S OM E T HI N G      I  H A V E   M A N Y  D I FE R E N CE S  F R OM   Y  P A R E N TS  A N D  W E  T HI N K  T HE Y R E  N O R M A L  GH O STS  NO T  W EA K  O R     E  T C

"What did it feel like?"

I N T E N S E

E U P H OR I C  P A I N F U L   I T C H Y

"Itchy."

I N  B ON E S  T HE N  M US C L E S  T HEN  S KIN

"Did that persist or was it just a transitional thing?"

(Flip) 2.

"It doesn't warn about that in the book at all. I wonder how many of these the author actually cast versus compiling from other sources and maybe if she was very responsible checking by divination..."

(Flip) I TS  HE R  PO E TR Y  ST Y L E      C O U L D  BE  S HE  L E A R N ED  I T  S O M E W HE R E