"...huh. I don't know enough about Latin to tell how fake that is but it sounds pretty fake. Wonder if the library's got any Latin resources?"

"I think Incendio is actually legit but the other one is definitely made up."

"Yeah, sounds like it."

He lolls his head back, kicking out his legs. "Being bored with somebody else around is weird. It feels like it shouldn't be possible. Like I should suddenly have something to do, even though I know there's nothing to do because we're in Smallville."

"I'm not bored," declares Sadde. "Chatting isn't boring. But you know what we could do? Build something. Like a fort or something. You have super powers, I have magic, we could have a headquarters!"

"...yeah, maybe," he says. "Can you make water? If you can make water we could bake mud bricks."

"It's a sixth year spell, I've never tried it. I guess I know the words and the gesture but I should try it outside in case something explodes."

"Well, we'd be outside. I don't know how badly you can fuck up 'make some water', anyway."

"It could instead make something explode."

"That doesn't seem connected to making water at all. Is the effect if you fuck up just completely random?"

"Kinda, yeah. The way we figure out whether the wand likes us when we go get ours is just waving them around and seeing which one doesn't destroy anything."

"...huh. But what if I want to destroy things?"

"Well, then the wand won't necessarily destroy the things you wanted to destroy or in the way you wanted to destroy them. I think."

"Oh. I guess that makes sense."

He glances at his overalls, then at the window. "Wanna just fly out, instead of going out the front door?"

"Sure."

Xan picks Sadde up, and opens the window, and flies out.

He flies them away to what looks like an old abandoned quarry, full of clay, dirt, and rocks. "How big a fort are we thinking?"

"Dunno but we can expand it if we want, right? So like maybe as big as the first floor of your house to start?"

"Cool. Uh, I guess... try to make some water to make a patch of mud, and I'll start making bricks if it works, and if not I can try cutting some of the stone?"

Sadde closes his eyes. "It's technically transfiguration. And I haven't really been taught conjuration but I did read ahead a bit... lemme think."

He breathes deeply and thinks.

Xan waits for about a minute, then gets bored and starts trying to figure out how to mine usable stone blocks using only his super-strong hands. He's not very successful.

After another minute he opens his eyes, points his wand, and says, "Aguamenti!"

A jet of clear water emanates from his wand.

"Cool!"

Xan goes over to the newly created mud and starts excavating. Superspeed makes it pretty easy, and soon he has a decently sized pile of mud, which he starts forming into bricks. Each brick gets a couple seconds of heat vision, baking it solid.

Awesome, he can make infinite water, conservation of matter be damned.