"Pretty much none? I'm not enrolled anywhere and don't have anything planned with the exception of a date sometime in the next few days, exact time undecided as of yet."

"Do you know what apprenticeship entails?"

"No, the library was not very forthcoming on the subject."

"It varies place to place, but the basic idea is that we work the storefront, clean, prep ingredients, make potions we're qualified to make, and do other miscellaneous chores in exchange for being taught potions. Ahin usually turns apprentices loose after four or five years."

"Sounds good!"

"Ahin can get rid of you for any or no reason, you can leave your apprenticeship for any or no reason, if you're still here after a year there's a temporary noncompete thing you have to sign - it only applies within the city, you could set up somewhere else, or just wait it out."

"Reasonable."

"You start as junior apprentice even relative to people younger or lower equivalence than you, they get certain limited ability to boss you around too, Ahin may delegate teaching duties to us, you are not entitled by this apprenticeship to any specific amount of Ahin's own time, abuse of the employee discount gets you booted... uh, questions?"

"Define 'abuse of the employee discount'?"

"Reselling, buying for friends more than in very small quantities, that sort of thing, if you aren't sure pay full price."

"Ah, gotcha. I'd... mostly be buying—and making—them to convert them."

"...hasn't come up before. Uh, you might want to use the bulk discount but not the employee one for that."

"Why not?"

"The employee discount is for, like, small, normal-person amounts."

"Ah, yeah, fair enough."

"Any other questions?"

"Don't think so."

"Okay, fill this out," she gives him a form, "go in back and see if Ahin likes you, he won't take you if he doesn't like you."

"Okay!"

...does his translation spell let him write things in the appropriate language?

Yes!

Oh good then he fills it out and goes in back!

And there is a bustling workspace with cauldrons and kids and an animated elf fellow calling for ingredients and having a couple of the apprentices run them over.

He waits to be acknowledged (and watches it all, this looks fun).

It takes a few degrees but eventually the fellow who is presumably Ahin seems done with what he's doing and notices Kaede. "Hello there! What's up?"

"Hi! I wanna be an apprentice."