"- bet that helps, yep."

So he converts some arcanist mana into an elementalist blessing and bounces.

"Huh."

"Useful?"

"Very. How long can you sustain that?"

"Like three days straight, accounting for conversion losses."

"Oh, more than enough, but I might want it for an angle or two." Stare stare notes notes.

They both can stare, then, and Kaede at least is getting the added benefit of adorable dragon boy.

If one is into the sort of person Kaylo is, then one would certainly benefit from staring at him, because he is it a lot.

Yup, he is.

Will he be done with a version of the analysis before they should go to bed?

Nope.

Then Kaede will say good night and return to his dorm.

It is right where he left it.

Good! Then sleep, and next morning she wakes up early enough to show up at Ahin's (chanting her spell on the way under her breath to change).

Ahin barely blinks at the change of gender except to ask if her name is different on girl days or not, then sits her down and explains the difference between potion-quality and not-potion-quality sprigs of parsley and sets her to sorting it and says to find him when she's done.

She is very diligent, and she watches the different types of parsley for magical differences.

The parsley is completely nonmagical.

This is so weird.

Okay, she's done.

Ahin checks her parsley, rejects some sprigs she accepted, and sits her at a cauldron with another apprentice who is to show her how to make pef tan and introduce her to their measuring conventions (volumes for liquids, weights for solids, they measure temperature too).

She continues to be extremely diligent and follows instructions to the letter. If there's room for creativity in potionmaking, it's not now.

Pef tan is simple. When she knows the mechanical steps she is sat down with her own ingredients and cauldron and her senior attempts to explain how to do the magic part.

Oooh! Here's the interesting part, then. First, can she do it? Second, can she copy it? If she could make herself generate that magic without needing to actually make potions...

She can do it, although it will take a while to get the hang of it; this is normal. She cannot directly generate the magic; it only appears when one goes about potionmaking actions.

That is so weird. And the magic's coming from her, not some other place and through her?

Yup!