"Thank you!"

"Thank you for bringing it to my attention again! I ought really have thought of it myself - it could be revolutionary, if any Thoughtsenser could be taught lie-detection..." 

"Yeah, it would be really big, and then you'd never have to worry about being bothered about lie-detecting for student disciplinary matters! Once you'd trained a classful, anyway."

"It would be wonderful!" Lionwind looks thoughtful. "- You know, you have both Gifts as well, and stronger than I. And the mental flexibility of youth. Once you master the trick of doing it with Mindhealing, perhaps you could make some headway imitating it with Thoughtsensing, and beat me to it." 

"Good idea. I'll work on it over the break."

He pats her on the shoulder. "You are going to visit your father again? Do please write to me if you end up seeing patients there." 

"I probably will, I did last time, and I'll write you like last time. Oh, I could also give you a communication-spell focus! I can do it with non-mages now if they have a focus."

"What an excellent idea!" 

"You can have this one, I can make another for my dad."

"Thank you."

She makes another focus, and she goes on her trip, and catches up with her patients in her dad's town, and checks in with Lionwind about them. She has a nice time hanging out with her dad, comes fishing and scoops fish out of the river with MAGIC and cooks them with him for dinner, and comes back in plenty of time for the start of the next term.

Ma'ar seems glad to see her again, though as usual he's not very demonstrative about it. "I did a study project on Gates," he tells her. "Not permanent Gates, but there are other variations on it - you can do Gates just from pictures, if you're really really good, or using a direction on a map..." 

"Oh, cool! How good does the picture have to be?"

"I don't really know? I think it'd depend on how good you are at the technique, but I can't do Gates at all yet to test it, so..." Shrug. 

"Well, we can try it when we can do Gates. I'm excited."

"Me too!" 

They don't have Gates on their curriculum yet, not until the second half of the year, but they've been graduated by the tutor who was working with them on ley-line and node use, to join the students learning to cast various kinds of larger heavy-duty spells that can't be done without nodes. Most of that cohort is at least eighteen. 

Ma'ar wants to take the concert-work class too, but he expects Azabel maybe won't want to? 

"I kinda don't want to. Maybe you can try teaching me whatever they do on the first day and I can do it with you and see if it's very awful and if it isn't take it later."

"I mean, if you don't want to do concert projects when you're grown up, maybe it won't matter? I think you only need it for really really big things. I can show you what I learn though, and I'm pretty sure I won't read your mind by accident." 

"Well, I might want to if it isn't awful! I would just need to know how likely it would be to be awful to make an informed decision."

"All right, I'll let you know." 

"Thanks!"

Now, what classes does she want to take this term...

She has a lot of options! There are classes on book-preservation spells and emergency medical spells (to imitate basic field Healing for non-Healers) and jewelry-making with magic and long-distance scrying and a dozen other very specific courses that she's now considered advanced enough to take. 

Wow, those are all very specific. To the point where it seems weird to spend a whole term on anything so specific, actually, like, probably she doesn't need ten different book preservation spells? Are those little half-term dealies or something?

The classes run for a full three-month term, but the very very specific ones meet once rather than twice a week. The Healing one is a full-sized course; there are a lot of spells to cover; the book-preservation one needs a couple of months work of building up with simpler and then intermediate-complexity preservation spells that don't, for example, allow the necessary handling that books are submitted to. 

She will take the emergency medicine class and the preservation spell class, then.