"Potentially. Not everyone gets every possible power of their element."

"Any pattern to who gets what?"

"Things that... suit the person, usually?"

"...wow does this say a lot about that Nirue person."

...she snorts. "Yes."

"Are they predictable at all, or do they just make sense in hindsight?" 

"Sometimes you can guess? I'd have been really surprised if I didn't get healing."

"And I'd have been really surprised if I didn't get lifeshaping, I guess, but other than that... healing makes sense, giving people various magical powers and blessing them in general makes sense..."

"I guess we'll find out."

"Do these powers just—appear? Or do I have to do something? Can I do something to accelerate getting powers?"

"Sometimes people find out they have a power when it gets their attention somehow; sometimes they find out when they try to do something and it works. My Water friend taking us here was an instance of trying something that worked. But you, well, might be able to tell ahead of time?"

"Hmm, well, I could tell when I looked at you that there were... defined and undefined bits of the magic?"

"Huh... that's interesting, that means we don't have all our powers from the start..."

"Seems that way, yeah."

"So then maybe you can get new powers by trying things."

"I wonder if I can... make new powers. With, you know, my magic. Or modify the ones already there. It's the general sort of thing I can do."

"I'd be worried you might mess something up..."

"Yeah. I think I might try to make a new one from the undefined parts of my Wood magic and then see if I can touch them."

"Well, let me know how it goes!"

So she does. First, she looks at what she—can already do. Lifeshaping? Is that all, so far?

Looks like it, yes.

Hmm... Is there any sense in which there's a limit to the number of powers she can have? Is her magic finite?

There's definitely not infinite room, but there's also not anything like a limited number of slots.

...well that's interesting.

Okay now she looks at Ruava. Can she identify the healing part of her power?

Yep it's that bit!