They're all very impressed with the Unseen Servant! Can she teach them to do that? Would she like to stay aboard the Golden Hawk?

No, she would not! She could in theory teach them to do that but usually people are custom-made for it, it takes about two years to pick up otherwise.

Well, how do you make people for it?

She hasn't done it herself and there might be a trick to it she doesn't know but they should be very smart, good at visualizing things in their head and at math and at holding lots of things in working memory at once, and they should know some spells, this one's called Unseen Servant, though they'll have to make a spellbook to use them. 

The crew write that down. What are some other spells called?

Mage Armor, Feather Fall, Fly, Summon Devil, Prestidigitation, Dancing Lights...

What's a devil?

Where she's from people get an afterlife when they die. It's called Hell. Devils are the people who live there and also a thing that you can turn into, there, over time.

Huh. And then you can summon them? Will she do it now so they can see? She can have a wake off kitchen work for it.

She does not have the spell, copying spells into your spellbook takes expensive ink and she only has a handful and it doesn't include that one.

Huh. What kind of expensive ink?

It needs to be very highly concentrated and very well-filtered for impurities and really - lasting. You're supposed to test if ink is spellbook quality by daubing the slightest bit on your finger and if you can rub it out with enough determined rubbing then it's not high quality enough.

Gosh. Anything else they need to know to make their next shipmate a wizard?

She is actually really curious whether that'll work. "Wizards can invent more spells but they've got to be really smart even for wizards, to do that."

What kinds of smart?

Seeing how magic ought to fit together is like - being able to visualize a big thousand-piece puzzle when you can only see three or four pieces at a time?

Gosh! Okay. They'll mull that over. Fortunately it should already go pretty well with the new crewmate they're working on.

Ooooh, what else are they putting in?

She can see their notes if she wants. They're doing it collaboratively, they want new people to get along with everybody on the ship. Captain gets to actually make them. They have drawn a lovely teenage girl with curly hair and freckles and an impish smile - the drawing is in black and white but someone tells Carissa she's going to be a redhead - and her name's going to be Trauni and apparently she'll be a wizard! They're setting her up for navigation, their navigator's getting old and wants to retire with one of the riggers to a colony round and do dockside shipping logistics, so they were already working on puzzle-y type intelligence and they can throw in wizarding, see if it works, make another navigator if wizarding takes up a lot of Trauni's time.

That makes sense. She admires the picture. She's really curious if the wizarding will work, someone pointed out the other day that really if it's that easy lots of people should have it and maybe there's something her maker didn't tell her about how it's done, and ever since then she's wondered but she wasn't going to make someone just to check.

Well, they're going to make Trauni anyway and if she can't wizard no harm done! They do a big circuit through Ivory colonies and she can stop by Twiceharbor in a few months to see Trauni, if she wants.

Sure!

They will have her do some magic in addition to kitchen work for the rest of the trip, so they can see how it's done and have a better shot at making Trauni good at it (and because it seems like a good idea to mend rope instead of having to buy new rope).

Sure. They won't be able to see much more than her waving her hands and saying incantations but she can try to describe what it looks like to Detect Magic, too.

Eventually they get to their midway stop, pick up a shipmate they put off there last time to let him recover from a broken leg, haul cargo around. Can her veggie-chopping magic person haul crates?