"Yeah, you can figure out how to build any spell in a branch from knowing just one. If you have enough memorized and really understood it'll take less time, too. Maybe six months to build an Adept spell, for a Master. And you can learn spells from an unenchanted tome, too, you just have to have figured out what all the equations actually mean. If you learn enough the normal way, and use them a lot, you get a sort of a sense for that. It still takes days or weeks, though." 

Patiri nods and smiles. She then will get into this book trance thing.

It feels rather like when you get so engrossed in a book you forget the rest of the world exists for a while, except moreso. She loses the next half-hour almost entirely, and when she looks up she 1) can sense her pool of magicka, and 2) knows how to manipulate it in exactly the correct way to preform the Healing spell.

Lia is already done with hers, and has cast her spell, staring in fascination at the lightly glowing pale aura covering her skin. 

Magic! This is great! She can't immediately test her spell, but she magic! Patiri even checks with her amulet. Yep, magic. "This is great!"

"It is!" 

He laughs, "I'm glad you're enjoying it so much! Did you want to try your spell out? I don't mind being a test subject, though we might need to leave the bar area if I'm gonna give myself a cut or something. Wouldn't want to put anyone off their food," he glances around the room, "Or on it, if there's any vampires around here." 

"Vampire? I think I can go to the infirmary, I am likely qualified for a job there."

"Good point," he agrees, "You can ask Bar about that," he adds, nodding at the physical form of the person in question, "Though we might want to figure out what you're going to do with these books, first? Do you want to keep them all? I'll have to get one of you to grab my soulgem dust and my stash of soulgems, too."

"Oh, and, vampires are blood drinkers," he adds belatedly. "Exact specifics vary, but the ones from my world are under a Daedric curse - the Daedra are extradimensional beings, the one who created vampires is one of the most powerful ones, the Daedric Prince Molag Bal." 

Patiri does not make a sound, but she clearly finds that disturbing as well. "We should get all the things out of the way, first. Grab what you're willing to offer. And we have rooms, we can keep the books there."

Vampires are pretty disturbing, objectively, though they're not all bad. 

"Sounds good." 

He'll let them through the door again, pointing out the chest with his soulgems and a little bag of dust in it, as well as a smaller metal box.

"I'm not willing to give up all of these, but you're welcome to pick one or two pieces each?" He says once they're back at the table, opening the little strongbox and turning it around to show off the contents - a bunch of jewelry, everything from earrings to necklaces to rings, and a couple of diadems as well. "They're all enchanted," he adds. 

"Oh. What do they do?"

"Oh, lots of things-" He pulls a few out, setting them out on the unoccupied parts of the table. One of the diadems offers clarity of thought; the other enhances vision, allowing the wearer to see things at a great distance. Two of the necklaces fortify stamina, one increases the rate of magicka recharging, one offers some minor health regeneration, and the last lets the wearer move more quietly. The rings range from ones which aid fine motor control to minor luck enchantments to waterbreathing to elemental resistance. Most of the earrings enhance hearing, but there's a set of two which allow the wearers to hear what happens around their counterpart. 

Out of those, her favorite is the clarity of thought, she wants the magicka recharging one and the regeneration ones to be on Amenta, because they sound like good things to have samples of, but she does not feel strongly about owning both of them. Does Lia want either one of them?

Lia is willing to take the health regeneration one. She maybe wants to take a luck enchantment, as well, if they actually work? So Patiri can take the magicka regen necklace. 

The luck enchantments absolutely work, he made those ones himself. They're entirely welcome to those four items. Once they've picked them out, he puts the rest of the jewelry back in the box, and closes and locks it again.

"Those won't run out of charge very fast," he tells them, "It takes decades for passive enchantments to run dry. Once they do, though, they can be recharged with the soulgems. Empty soulgems can be refilled, too. Ah, some people have found this disturbing, sorry in advance, but the way to do that is to cast Soul Trap on an animal as it dies. The spell captures their soul energy and you can then use it to power an enchantment."

She picks up the items and does not find that particularly disturbing. "Sounds easy enough to manage in a decade. We didn't check the difference between our years. Oh, do you want anything in return?"

"Oh no, I'm fine," he smiles at her, "I've got everything I need. This stuff is nothing I can't build back up in a few weeks, anyway. It's all replaceable." 

"As for years, hm, well we have twelve months, each with either 30 or 31 or in one case 28 days. Our days are 24 hours long, and hours are 60 minutes long. Minutes are 60 seconds long, and a second is roughly the length of time it takes to say six syllables." He's obviously run through this before.

And after a couple calculations. "So, one of our years is four of yours."

"Ah, I suppose that makes reaching maturity in five years sound more reasonable," he agrees. "Do you want to take some of these books up to your rooms, now? I think I'll head back home, soon, myself." He sees Milliways often enough, and he has plans back home, which will of course wait on him, but he doesn't actually want to wait very long. 

Yeah, better if they do it now.

He'll help them do that, then. It only takes three trips with Gaemir helping. 

"It was nice meeting you," he tells Patiri and Liarae once most of the books are up in the former's room. Liarae kept hold of two of them to read once she has a moment, Frostbite and Clairvoyance. "Luck to you both," he offers, "I hope we run into each other again sometime." 

"Likewise." Patiri says with Conjure Familiar and Lesser Ward in her hands.

"Thank you," Lia adds. 

He beams at her, "Any time," he says. 

And then he's gone.