"Oh, yeah, people will sell their extra, it's not hard to learn to do."

"Wow! That next, then, maybe."

"Okay, who should I demonstrate on?"

"Everyone have it, they don't need magic abilities themself?"

"People who practice have more but everybody starts with some or how would they learn enough to practice?"

"Well, most people can't be wizards no matter how much they practice."

"Yeah, you have to be smart enough, people take tests at the start of ninth grade in the Imperium."

"I don't know what age is the ninth grade but that's what we do too." He waves someone over. "What do you need her to do?"

"Nothing." Is it okay if I take some of your mana? It will feel a little weird but it won't hurt and you'll be back to normal after you sleep.

Of course, ma'am.

She might not take that if there were actually a risk involved but for this it'll do. Yoink.

He observes.

"I took like a third of what she has but I was trying to do it nice and slow, did you get a good look...?"

"I think so. Maybe one more time?"

Bella takes another quantity of the same size.

"I wonder why no one here discovered how to do this."

"I don't know. It's not something I had to figure out myself, so I don't know how hard it would be to come up with from scratch - anyone who takes a class in arcane magic at college level picks this up, although I think people graduate high school without a working understanding."

"I'm curious what you'll make of our arcana textbook."

"We can find out. I do want to get underway on modifying the earwire spell though."

"Yes, of course. Reassure your friends, then we can do more catching me up."

"You can watch me work through it though."

Which she proceeds to do, commentating as she goes.

He takes detailed notes!

It's going to take more than a day. It might help to have a look at a plane shift scroll.

He can get one of those fetched!

Cool.

This is gonna take a week or so. More if she's doing other things, though she can teach him the languages in parallel by commentating on the work as she does it.