"It was, yeah, I learned a lot out there. I hear you've been doing research; I bet that's exciting too."

"It really is!" She starts in on a story about something to do with bladder-stones, which they're trying to study in mice before they use the new Healing technique with humans. Bits of it are slightly gruesome but on the whole it's interesting. 

Doing things to mice before doing them to humans is a good idea, even if it does sometimes result in gruesomeness. "How easy is it to tell, with Healing, whether something worked or the mouse would have recovered anyway?"

"It's not very hard if you're fixing it directly, like with an injury, but if it's indirect then sometimes. So you would get a few different mice and only do the Healing on some of them, and then see if the other ones got better anyway." 

"That would do it, yeah."

"What have you been working on lately?" 

"Eh, mostly just getting the hang of all my Gifts and trying out ways of combining them--Fetching things I can only see with Farsight and stuff. I should be investigating the weird accident I had on the way to Haven to make sure it doesn't happen again but, uh, I don't know a safe way to do it." If she's interested, he can explain the mess with the weather-barrier.

"It must be really neat having so many Gifts you can combine!" Shavri's expression is speculative and a little jealous. "Ooh, I do want to hear about your weird accident! Lots of Healing discoveries were made because of weird accidents." 

"I used a weather-barrier to move heat out of a patch of ground into a shield full of air, and there ended up being more heat in the shield than I had pulled out of the ground. It was like it started generating more heat on its own. I nearly fried the four of us to a crisp, and I need to know why and I'm scared to find out." The last part comes out all in a rush.

"Hmm. I don't know much about mage-work, but I read in a book once about the elemental plane of Fire, maybe you accidentally channeled fire from it? I don't know if that makes any sense with the spell you were using though." 

"I mean, I don't think there was anything in the spell that could contact another plane, but it's clearly something I don't know is possible."

"It does seem like it'd be really useful to be able to get extra energy from nowh– from wherever it comes from, it probably isn't 'nowhere'. Although if the only thing it can do is a giant dangerous fireball then it'd only be useful in big fights," Shavri grimaces at the thought, "or if you wanted to start a forest fire for some reason." Frown. "...Can you make a really tiny weather-barrier? Then maybe it'd be a littler fireball and you could study it more safely." 

"I've made smaller ones before and they didn't do the thing--though not since then; I guess I should make sure it isn't going to happen every time now. Somewhere outside where there's plenty of space."

“You were using it in a different way, no? To freeze other stuff, not to keep the inside warm. So it was still moving the heat somewhere else, however that works, but maybe a lot more of it? I wonder if air catches on fire the way wood does, but just has to be a lot hotter? I mean, you have to get wood hot enough too, it won’t catch by itself, but tinder catches more easily...”

"Yeah, and I was squashing it all into a shield and it stopped when I let it expand. Maybe I could make a really small shield and it would happen with proportionately less starting heat?"

“Huh, I’d bet it would. And then it’d be a smaller fireball if it exploded. But you’d still want to do it far away from people, I think. Or important buildings.”

"Yeah. Way out in a field somewhere, and as far away from me as I can put it and still see what I'm doing. Maybe over a lake or something."

“That’s a good idea.” Shavri giggles. “You might freeze the lake though - ooh, that could be a really neat way to get to go skating in summer!”

"If I ever end up able to do it on that scale safely and repeatably, I'll be sure to let you know."

Shavri nods and then shifts the topic to some random drama at Healers’ that Abras knows nothing about.

Abras tries to keep track of the names and who agrees with whom on what and quickly gets lost. It's entertaining anyway.

Eventually Shavri interrupts herself. “...Oh, sorry, I should probably go. I hope you have a good evening! See you around!”

"See you!" And then he can get some dinner, and hang out in his room practicing non-explosive magic until a reasonable bedtime.

He wants to be well-rested for his tests in the morning, but he's too nervous about those very same tests to fall asleep easily, so he takes some of the herbs he brought back from K'Treva for it. Then he has a nightmare that the herbs caused him to sleep for a whole day and he failed his tests by not showing up and also Tylendel was eaten by the tree that was eating people. He wakes up from this nightmare at a totally reasonable hour.

Yfandes is already up, receptive whenever he reaches for her. :You should have time for some quick tea and a bite to eat over at Savil's suite, she's got breakfast there already, and then she can show you where to go: 

:Oh good. Thanks.: He doesn't say "wish me luck", because passing the tests due to luck when he would by rights have failed them would be the worst way this could go. :I'll see you later.: He gets dressed and heads over to Savil's, relieved about not needing to get breakfast in the dining hall where someone might say something to him.