"Entirely your decision. Though you could talk with me about it if you wanted."

"Well I have to, I have a rule. That I made for myself. About how I don't take spells unless you think they're good ideas."

"Oh. I didn't actually know that. 

It's a good rule. I won't let you take horrible ones."

"Thank you. I appreciate it."

"What would we need for mass healing?"

"Kind of unclear! The book says it has verbal and somatic components, meaning you have to say something and do a motion, and that it takes one standard action to cast, so maybe, like, four seconds? But it doesn't specifically require anything else. So - I guess I would try coming up with a really short four-second incantation about being cured of all ills, or something, and a hand motion to go with it, and then just, uh, repeatedly do those at people until it took?"

"Seems worth a shot."

"Yeah. I won't get another spell until after Halloween, but I can come up with something now and spam it at people and see if it takes."

"And eventually we'll get powerful enough we can use the gates spell."

"Yeah. Someday. Although we should possibly find a way to check that there's anything actually on the other side first."

"How does that work in D&D?"

" - I don't actually know, I've never played a character that was strong enough to use any of these. Probably there are spells for looking into other dimensions that are less strong than ones for going there?"

"That makes sense. - I like that, as a long-term plan."

Bounce bounce. "Yeah. - we have long-term plans. I don't think I've had any long-term plans since I was, like, twelve."

"It's school. It takes all peoples' plans and buries them under misery and homework."

"I have picked up on this being your theory. I'm not actually sure what did it. When I was really little I wanted to be an astronaut. And then I realized we weren't sending people to the moon anymore and I decided I was going to be a microbiologist. And then at some point I realized I was really terrible at all of the parts of school that weren't memorizing things or writing nonsense while in class."

"Was this supposed to disprove my theory, because -"

" - I guess it doesn't really. But, like, the stuff I wanted to be before is stuff that you need to go to school to do. - which is most things, I guess, just not magic."

"So good thing we have magic."

"I suppose so."

"I guess we should wait to get too excited until we know for sure if it works that way."

"Yeah. But, like, worst case I'm just limited to actual rituals that other people have done, which is still a whole new avenue of stuff to explore."

"But no jumping dimensions! I wanna jump dimensions."

"I don't even know if they exist! But I'll do my best."

She comes up with a hand gesture to do. She spends a lot of time doing it at people and saying the words 'may all in range of this spell be healed of all ills of body and mind' under her breath.

Halloween arrives. She puts together a witch costume, half because this is an excuse to own a witch outfit and this seems appropriate given that she's a witch now. Zana is a dinosaur. Little Connor is a jedi. 

He's a sexy fairy. He is wearing a elaborate green fabric vine draped over a pair of sparkly sequined underwear, and a flower crown.